alarmed - Story 1888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The oversized mailbox, now emblazoned with a gold-plated nameplate, caught her eye every morning. Before, it was just another mailbox. Now, it was a symbol. A constant reminder.

Her steps quickened as she walked to her own, plainer mailbox. She found herself scanning the street, looking for the glint of the neighbor's expensive car. She found herself avoiding their gaze at the store.

A tremor ran through her. She felt strangely exposed, as if her own financial situation was suddenly visible for everyone 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