alarmed - Story 1934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist had a pleasant smile, but Sarah couldn’t return it. The arrangement, a riot of colours she usually loved, felt like a threat. “No card, dear?” the florist asked, tilting her head. Sarah swallowed hard. “No.” Back in the car, she double-checked the address on the delivery slip. Correct. She looked in the rearview mirror, her eyes darting to the bouquet, now perched on the passenger seat. The perfume felt suffocating.

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