afraid - Story 867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a simple, unassuming package, left on her doorstep. Inside, a well-worn copy of a book she’d recommended to a student, Emily, years ago. The book was a rare edition. She’d been so happy to see Emily so engaged with the novel. The gift felt different, sinister.

Her throat tightened. Emily had always been intense, prone to dramatic outbursts. The book was underlined, a lot. There was a note tucked inside the front cover. Her hand trembled as she pulled it out, her eyes scanning the neat handwriting.

She needed air. The words blurred before her eyes, and she felt a sudden urge to get as far away from her home as possible.

Emotion: afraid

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.76 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion afraid. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 afraid stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the afraid emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the afraid vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.316
`마다`	0.314
`worse`	0.313
`😰`	0.303
`恐惧`	0.290

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.691
`la`	-0.562
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.316
`brag`	-0.293