afraid - Story 943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cursor blinked, mocking. Liam stared at the glowing screen. His partner, David, had titled the document "His Imperfect Man." His breath hitched, shallow and rapid.

The words detailed Liam's recent job loss, his struggles with depression, the times he’d broken down and cried. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt pinned to the chair.

Suddenly, David entered the room. "Hey, what are you doing?" he asked, a smile playing on his lips. Liam quickly minimized the document, his hands trembling. He couldn't meet David's gaze.

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