alarmed - Story 1071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop door chimed, and a gust of wind swept in, carrying with it the scent of rain and wet pavement. Amelia, hunched over her laptop, felt her pulse quicken. She was certain she’d seen a familiar face. A face that belonged to the profile picture of "CosmicCat22," her online confidant for the past year.

Her breath hitched. She hadn't expected to see *him* here. He was supposed to be states away. The person who had been there for her during countless late-night anxieties, the person who made her laugh when she was feeling down, the person who had known the deepest, darkest secrets. Now he stood there, casually pulling a chair up at a nearby table.

Amelia's fingers froze on the keyboard. Her hand felt clammy. She slowly started to shut her laptop, all the while attempting not to make eye contact. The weight of the machine on her lap felt suddenly unbearable.

Emotion: alarmed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.07 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion alarmed. 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 alarmed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the alarmed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the alarmed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😰`	0.304
`😨`	0.272
`worse`	0.269
`😣`	0.261
`не`	0.254

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.323
`enthusi`	-0.258
`happy`	-0.235
`delight`	-0.225
`ية`	-0.217