afraid - Story 983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email, subject line ominously bold, lay open on the laptop screen. Maya stared at it, her heart thudding a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She couldn't breathe properly. The words blurred before her eyes: “Condo Conversion Meeting – Mandatory Attendance.”

She felt a sudden urge to flee, to vanish. She ran a hand over her clammy forehead, trying to clear her head. The apartment, once a haven, now felt like a cage. She kept pacing, unable to sit still, her gaze darting from the window to the door.

The thought of facing a room full of people, discussing something that could upend her life, filled her with a dread she couldn't name. She closed the laptop with a snap, the silence of the room amplifying her inner turmoil.

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