alarmed - Story 1076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had told her he was "Dr. Strange," the mysterious man from the other side of the country. He’d helped her get through a really tough time. Then, there he was, standing in line at the grocery store, buying the same brand of cereal he’d mentioned he loved in a recent chat.

Her hands shook as she fumbled to pay. She hoped he hadn’t noticed her. She darted out of the store before he could reach the checkout. The weight of the bags felt like a burden. She never wanted to see him again.

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