afraid - Story 967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the list tucked inside a book she’d given him for their anniversary. "Visit every art gallery in Europe." "Learn to code." "Live alone for a year." A chill ran up her spine.

Her fingers traced the words, feeling the rough texture of the paper. Everything seemed to fade except for the words on the page. She closed the book.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was alone in the quiet house, but the emptiness felt amplified. She wasn’t sure what to do.

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