alarmed - Story 1438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed, “World-Famous Chili Recipe Revealed!” Sarah pressed her fingers to her lips. She recognized her recipe, every spice, every secret ingredient, now public knowledge. A familiar ache settled behind her eyes.

Her vision blurred. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She knew she had shared the recipe. Years ago. She just hadn’t expected this.

Her breath hitched. She needed air. She grabbed her coat and practically stumbled out of her house, her mind racing.

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