afraid - Story 942 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the manuscript tucked under the mattress, a spiral-bound notebook filled with his wife, Emily's, distinctive handwriting. John's stomach clenched. The room seemed to shrink.

Each chapter was a meticulously detailed portrait of him: his quirks, his insecurities, his most private moments. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His jaw tightened.

He heard Emily's footsteps in the hallway. He quickly shoved the notebook back under the mattress, trying to steady his breathing. The door creaked open. “John, are you feeling alright?” she asked, her brow furrowed.

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