alarmed - Story 1286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification brought a sharp intake of breath. "Brenda Clark wants to connect." Her stomach did a flip. Brenda. The girl who made her life a misery in high school.

She quickly glanced around her meticulously organized office, as if searching for something to ground her. The neatly arranged pens, the stack of papers, all felt alien.

She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture. She picked up her phone and mindlessly scrolled through the news, seeking a distraction from the uncomfortable emotions bubbling to the surface. It was all a bit much.

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