alarmed - Story 1886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the price tag on that handbag?" Brenda muttered, her voice low. Her best friend, Sarah, just nodded, her eyes wide. They were standing outside the boutique, watching their neighbor, Mrs. Harrison, emerge, a shopping bag in her hand. The handbag was the color of a sunset.

Brenda's hand flew to her own, far less fashionable, purse. Suddenly, the old car parked in her driveway felt even more embarrassing. She needed to change the subject, anything to get her mind off of it.

"Did you hear about the school bake sale?" she blurted out, her tone unnaturally bright.

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