afraid - Story 929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was vast, imposing. The weight of the legal proceedings, the uncertainty of the outcome, pressed down on her. The silence was almost unbearable.

Across the room, she saw him. He was a young man, fidgeting, running his hands through his hair repeatedly. He avoided eye contact, his body language speaking volumes.

The judge called the case. She saw him flinch. The shared reality, the shared burden, was a palpable thing. She wanted to scream.

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