afraid - Story 95 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door of his old room, the sound echoing in the silent house. It wasn't the slamming that triggered the response, but his own thoughts. His heart hammered against his ribs. The familiar posters on the wall, remnants of a life he couldn’t reclaim, mocked him. He paced the room, a caged animal, each step a testament to his lost independence.

The floorboards creaked outside. He held his breath.

A soft knock came. "Everything alright, honey?" his mother asked through the door.

He couldn't answer. The words wouldn't come.

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