afraid - Story 930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the crumpled prescription in his hand, a tangible symbol of his altered life. He reread the doctor's words, each syllable a sentence of dread.

He saw her in the coffee shop, across the room. She kept looking out the window, avoiding all contact. She slowly looked over at him.

He knew. The shared understanding was instantaneous, a spark that ignited in the shared knowledge. His heart began to pound. He took a deep, shaky breath, and felt a profound sense of foreboding.

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