alarmed - Story 1626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" Jessica whispered, her voice barely audible. "Mr. Harrison is following me on Twitter." Maria’s eyes widened, a flicker of something close to dread passing over her face. She immediately checked her own profile. There he was, lurking.

A chill ran down her spine. The casual banter she engaged in with her friends online suddenly felt tainted. She felt a deep sense of unease. The social media world she thought she controlled now felt compromised.

She closed her laptop with a snap, feeling the weight of the knowledge press down on her. She had a sudden craving to be alone, to disappear. She felt like she could barely breathe.

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