alarmed - Story 1440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The YouTube video played, each step of the "Symphony Soup" recipe mirroring her grandmother's instructions, exactly. Her jaw clenched. That recipe was her legacy.

She reached out and paused the video, a tremor running through her hand. Her breath caught in her throat. She felt an overwhelming sense of violation.

She stared, transfixed, at the screen, her gaze fixated on the smiling face of the woman claiming her family's creation as her own. She began to pace, the anger simmering beneath the surface, threatening to boil over.

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