afraid - Story 990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Condos," she muttered, the word a bitter taste on her tongue. Her head spun. The familiar rhythm of her life – wake up, coffee, work, home – now felt fragile.

She found herself staring at the doorknob, wondering if someone could just walk in and take everything away. Her pulse was a frantic tattoo against her skin. She kept checking the locks.

She sat on the couch, hugging a pillow. The world seemed to be closing in on her. She felt like she was sinking. She closed her eyes, wishing she could just make it all disappear.

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