afraid - Story 89 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A fence?" she muttered, the words catching in her throat. The idea of boundaries, of separation, sent a ripple of distress through her. She felt a tightening in her chest.

She went outside, unable to stop the sudden, anxious urge to survey the area. She needed to understand, to visualize. But the more she stared, the more it felt like her space, her home, was shrinking.

She lost her appetite. Sleep became a battle. Her life had always felt spacious, full of possibility. Now, the future felt constrained.

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