afraid - Story 908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus, usually bustling with students, now felt eerily quiet. A sense of unease settled over Ethan as he walked to his next class. The familiar landmarks – the fountain, the clock tower – seemed to hold a sinister air.

He found himself constantly glancing around, expecting something to change, to crumble. A knot of tension tightened in his back. He ran his hand over his face, feeling the prickle of unshed tears. He wanted to go home, to disappear.

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