afraid - Story 94 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive felt endless. Each mile marker seemed to amplify the churning in her stomach. She stared out the window, avoiding her father’s concerned glances in the rearview mirror. His silence felt heavy, a judgement she couldn't meet. The trees, usually comforting, morphed into menacing figures against the darkening sky.

"We'll get you settled in," her father said, his voice unusually gentle.

She nodded, unable to meet his gaze. The house, when they arrived, felt immense, a mausoleum of memories, both good and bad. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe, as she got out of the car.

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