alarmed - Story 1759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, jolting Emily from her reverie. It was a letter carrier. He was standing at her front door. The envelope, thick and cream-colored, held a single sheet. The handwriting was unmistakable. It was from her ex-husband.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She gripped the kitchen counter to steady herself. Her hands were ice cold. She didn't want to open it.

She didn’t want to read those words, to relive those memories. She just wanted to run away. She wanted to be far, far away from all of this.

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