afraid - Story 947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the screen blurred as they swam into one another. He, the character in the book, was cold, detached, a ghost. The words describing the protagonist were soft and full of love. His hands shook, and he closed the laptop.

A feeling of intense pressure built inside his chest. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run.

He heard the keys in the lock, the sound of her coming home. He forced himself to take a deep breath, and stood, ready to face her. His feet felt like lead.

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