alarmed - Story 1627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school group chat was buzzing with the news. Mr. Olsen, the new biology teacher, had started following half the class on Snapchat. David’s heart started to race. He had a few regrettable snaps he'd sent to friends, and a few he'd rather Mr. Olsen didn't see.

He gripped his phone tightly. His palms were slick with sweat. He envisioned Mr. Olsen casually scrolling through his stories, judging him. The thought made his stomach clench.

He had to do something. He paced his room, debating. Block him? Delete everything? He felt a desperate need to cleanse his online presence, to erase any trace of anything he wouldn’t want his teacher to see.

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