alarmed - Story 1073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "StarlightGazer has started following you on Instagram." Sarah nearly choked on her sandwich. It was a local account. And the profile photo…the same messy bun and worn-out glasses that adorned "StarlightGazer," her online friend for three years.

Her appetite vanished. She rapidly scrolled through the account's pictures. Pictures of the city, of parks she recognized, even the cafe she frequented. A wave of heat washed over her, and she felt a prickle of sweat forming on her forehead.

Her phone vibrated. A DM. "Hey! Saw your profile. Small world, eh?" The sandwich lay forgotten as Sarah hastily shut down her phone and looked around, her eyes darting between the other patrons.

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