afraid - Story 892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the grade, his fingers tightening around the phone. A C-. The message he’d been so eager to read – the one that would dictate his future – felt instead like a condemnation. His pulse hammered against his ribs, a frantic rhythm. He wanted to scream. He wanted to crumple the screen and throw it. Instead, he just sat there, frozen, the world outside his window blurring into an incomprehensible mess of color.

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