afraid - Story 626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little blue checkmark that did it. Mr. Peterson, the choir teacher, had viewed her TikTok. Chloe felt the blood drain from her face. Her performance videos, her silly dances, now available for perusal.

She quickly clicked on his profile to see if he was following her. He was. A wave of nausea washed over her. She suddenly felt exposed, vulnerable. She wanted to scream.

She spent the next hour frantically deleting videos, editing others. She felt a deep, chilling sensation, a feeling of invasion. Her stomach churned. The world felt tilted, unbalanced.

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