afraid - Story 980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text arrived at 11:37 PM, a stark white notification on the darkened phone screen. "Hey, [neighbor's name] here. Thinking of putting in a small garden. Any chance I could use some of your yard?"

I didn't reply. I set the phone face down and stared at the ceiling. The air in my bedroom felt thick, and difficult to draw in. The quiet in the house seemed to press in on me. I closed my eyes.

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