alarmed - Story 1641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived mid-afternoon, subject line: "Important Announcement Regarding Company Future." Her fingers trembled as she clicked. The words blurred before her eyes, but the gist was clear: a takeover. A coldness spread through her chest, making it difficult to breathe. She swiveled in her chair, staring out the window at the bustling city below, suddenly feeling very, very small. The coffee she had just poured sat untouched, the steam now cold.

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