afraid - Story 868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gift was a song. A link sent by a former student, Jake, a week after her retirement. The song was a slow, melancholic ballad. She listened, her mind going back to his time in her class.

He had always been angry. The lyrics were unsettling, filled with raw emotion and a sense of… reckoning. She felt a cold dread creep over her. The music had a very familiar quality to it. She felt a deep sense of wrongness.

She closed her eyes, the music filling the room. Her body tensed, anticipating something she couldn't name. Her fingers fumbled for the volume control, seeking an end to the unsettling melody.

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