afraid - Story 874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," she stammered, her voice barely a whisper. The curator offered a polite smile, but his eyes held an unnerving glint. She'd worked for months in secret, pouring all her inner turmoil into the clay. The sculpture, that intimate expression of her pain, now sat on a pedestal under the scrutiny of an audience. Her legs felt weak. The blood was draining from her head, and she had to grip the edge of the display case to stay upright.

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