afraid - Story 944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the book's opening, it was clear. The fictional 'heroine' was her, and the 'villain' was clearly him, Michael. The description of her, written with such intimacy, made his skin crawl. A cold sweat erupted on his forehead.

The narrative painted him as controlling, manipulative. He felt a knot tighten in his gut. His hands were fists.

The doorbell rang. It was her. Michael found himself unable to move, rooted to the spot. His legs felt heavy.

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