alarmed - Story 1935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips were a cheerful yellow, but Emily felt anything but. Her hands trembled as she placed the flowers on the kitchen table. Where had they come from? Who had sent them? She had no reason to expect such a thing. She kept glancing at the closed blinds, wondering if anyone was watching. Her legs had gone wobbly, and she had to sit down at the table, her gaze fixed on the bright, innocent blooms.

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