afraid - Story 965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Swim with sharks,” the first item read. Sarah’s hands clenched into fists. She was staring at the list, taped to the inside of the medicine cabinet. She wanted to throw up. “Go to Burning Man.” “Fall in love again.”

The bright bathroom tiles seemed to constrict, the space getting smaller. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin. She had to get out.

She slammed the cabinet door shut, the noise echoing in the quiet apartment. Her breaths came in short, shallow bursts.

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