afraid - Story 98 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was a palpable thing. It pressed in on her, amplifying every creak and groan. She found herself holding her breath, listening for the slightest noise, the smallest indication of judgement. She avoided eye contact with her parents, preferring to stare at the patterned wallpaper in the dining room, or into her plate.

Her father cleared his throat. “So… did you… um… have a good day?”

She flinched. The question was harmless, but she couldn’t meet his eyes, couldn't voice the truth of the emptiness that had settled in her heart.

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