alarmed - Story 1436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it on a billboard – “Giovanni’s Famous Lasagna.” He felt the air leave his lungs. He recognised his Nonna’s meticulous instructions, every layer, every secret ingredient. The artist, Giovanni, had been a regular at his Nonna’s small trattoria before it closed.

He pulled over to the side of the road, his car shaking like a leaf. A cold sweat erupted across his forehead. He gripped the steering wheel so tight his knuckles turned white. His Nonna's legacy, her memory, stolen and rebranded.

He wanted to scream, to smash the billboard to pieces. The thought of confronting Giovanni swirled in his mind, but fear held him rooted in his seat.

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