afraid - Story 997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Published!" Leo stared at the email, his eyes widening. His hands clenched into fists. His chest felt tight, constricted. A wave of nausea swept over him. The essay, his vulnerability, his secret shame. On display for everyone.

He scrambled to the university website. It was there. His words. His thoughts. His innermost fears. A sick feeling churned in his gut. A cold sweat erupted on his forehead.

Leo wanted to scream, to tear the computer apart, to obliterate the evidence. He swallowed hard. The world seemed to shrink around him. The air grew heavy, thick with the weight of exposure. He felt a desperate urge to run, to hide, to disappear. He felt trapped.

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