alarmed - Story 1151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 8:03 AM. Sarah stared at the subject line: “Application Status: Marketing Associate.” Her pulse quickened. She took a deep breath, hands clammy, and clicked. Her stomach lurched. The message was a generic rejection, and she let out a long sigh, eyes darting over the words again. Then, she saw it: a congratulatory email, also at 8:03, addressed to... Emily.

She slammed her laptop shut, the metallic clank echoing in the quiet apartment. She paced, muttering under her breath, a knot forming in her chest. Emily had it. That was all she could think. Her best friend. The one who knew her weaknesses. The one she’d confided in about this very job.

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