afraid - Story 986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Condo?" The word was a strangled whisper. Daniel had found the notice taped to his door. He felt a wave of cold wash over him, leaving him shivering. The air suddenly seemed thin.

He slammed the door and leaned against it, the cheap wood vibrating beneath him. He felt the blood draining from his face. He felt like he was floating in a dark ocean.

He paced the length of the small apartment, his movements jerky and agitated. The things he thought he'd always have felt suddenly precarious. He didn't want to think about the what-ifs. He didn't want to think about anything.

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