afraid - Story 992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the webpage, a cold sweat beading on his forehead. "Example Essays: Winning Admissions!" The heading screamed at him. Liam pressed his lips together, his jaw muscles clenching. He felt a desperate urge to close the laptop, to pretend this wasn't happening.

His heart hammered against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of his room. The essay. His story. His carefully crafted persona. Now, it was fodder. He felt exposed, vulnerable, like a swimmer caught in a riptide. He felt the phantom touch of eyes he couldn't see.

Liam ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He wanted to rewrite his entire life, excise the parts that had somehow become public property. He couldn’t. He was trapped. He stared at the screen, immobilized.

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