afraid - Story 999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the words blurring before his eyes. "Featured Essay: [His Name]." Jason’s palms began to sweat. He felt a dizzying sensation, as if the ground beneath him had started to shift. He felt a deep, disquieting unease.

The essay, his most personal thoughts, the story of his life, was there. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His jaw tightened, his muscles rigid. It was a breach of privacy. He wanted to claw the words back.

Jason pushed away from his desk. He walked away from the screen, unable to look at it anymore. He felt a deep, churning discomfort. He needed to be somewhere else. He had to breathe. He grabbed his car keys and left.

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