afraid - Story 989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen the flyers posted downstairs. The building was converting. He didn't want to believe it. He felt trapped. He wanted to scream.

He made a pot of coffee, but his hands shook so much, the water sloshed over the rim. He paced, unable to sit down. He felt a knot in his stomach. The apartment, which had always felt like home, was now a cage.

The thought of moving, of leaving everything behind, sent a wave of nausea through him. He leaned against the counter, his knees feeling weak. He felt so exposed, so vulnerable. He took another shaky breath.

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