alarmed - Story 1885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, posted on the community Facebook page, showed Mr. and Mrs. Gable on a yacht. The caption read, "Enjoying a lovely holiday!" A wave of heat washed over Elena.

She clicked the “like” button, her hand shaking slightly. The picture displayed a life she could only dream of. A life that seemed to be within reach of her neighbor.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She scrolled through the comments, each word a pinprick. She needed to get some air. She stood up and headed for the door, the picture of the yacht now burned onto her retinas.

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