afraid - Story 945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the monitor cast shadows on her face. Alex's name jumped out at her, in the manuscript. It was a fictional tale about them both, or so it seemed, but the details were too specific. Her breath caught in her chest, a strangled sound.

The character based on her felt vulnerable, lost. And the protagonist, obviously him, the one who was supposed to be her partner, was written as a savior. She felt something cold in her chest, something that weighed heavily on her.

A floorboard creaked, and she flinched. The door opened and there he stood, his smile a little too wide, a little too innocent. She could only stare.

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