afraid - Story 886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Morning, Carol!” Her neighbor, Mr. Peterson, greeted her with a smile. She found herself unable to return the gesture. His simple wave felt threatening. He had always seemed so… ordinary.

She managed a weak reply, but her voice cracked. The crisp morning air felt suddenly heavy, suffocating. She hurried into her car, fumbling with the keys. The usual route to work now seemed filled with invisible dangers.

She found herself glancing in her rearview mirror repeatedly, checking, double-checking, for something she couldn't name. Her grip on the steering wheel tightened, her knuckles white, her breath shallow and uneven.

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