alarmed - Story 1936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are those…for me?” The words felt like a croak. John, normally so unflappable, stood frozen in the doorway, staring at the basket of mixed blossoms. The delivery man, oblivious, beamed and said, “Enjoy!” Then he was gone. John slammed the door, his heart racing. He checked the locks, then slowly approached the basket. His pulse thrummed in his ears as he crouched down, searching for a clue, any clue. There was nothing.

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