afraid - Story 941 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laptop hummed, its screen reflecting Sarah's wide eyes. The title, bold and stark, read "The Girl in the Coffee Shop." She took a shaky breath, fingers hovering over the trackpad. Her pulse hammered against her ribs.

She clicked. Pages of prose unfolded, describing her habits, her favorite latte, the way she tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear. A shiver traced its way down her spine. The words felt like a violation.

“Honey, dinner's almost ready!” Mark’s voice, cheerful, from the kitchen. Sarah slammed the laptop shut, heart leaping. She wiped her clammy palms on her jeans, her throat tight.

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