afraid - Story 940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting anything. Ever since *that* night, anything like this terrified him. The sunflowers, brilliant and cheerful, sat on the desk, the complete absence of a name somehow more terrifying than any threat. He sat at his computer, his fingers hovering over the keys. The cursor blinked. He couldn’t work. The air was heavy, the silence too thick to bear. He felt as if something was already within him, waiting.

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