afraid - Story 988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call confirmed it. The condo conversion. Her voice was flat, devoid of emotion as she relayed the details to her brother. After she hung up, her hands went to her mouth.

She walked from room to room, the floors seeming to creak louder than usual. The sunlight was too bright, making the dust motes dance in the air. The familiar objects around her felt alien.

She kept checking the locks on the doors and windows. Every creak and groan of the building now seemed menacing. The future was a dark, unknown path.

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