afraid - Story 968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list, written in vibrant colors, lay on the coffee table. "Open a bakery." "Adopt a rescue cat." "Find my true self." Mark felt the blood drain from his face.

He paced the living room, unable to sit still. Every step felt like a mistake. The furniture, the pictures on the wall, seemed unfamiliar. He felt like he was suffocating.

He ran his hands through his hair, again and again. He couldn't meet his own gaze in the mirror.

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