alarmed - Story 1370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was bright, gaudy. The greeting was cheerful, generic. "Hope your day is fantastic!" It sent a chill down her spine. The unsigned message felt like a threat.

She spun around, her eyes wide, scanning the street. The normalcy of the neighborhood seemed to mock her. The card felt heavy in her hand, a weight that threatened to pull her down.

She retreated indoors. She sat on the couch, her gaze fixed on the card. The colored pictures on the card seemed to stare back at her. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She clutched her chest, trying to steady herself.

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