alarmed - Story 1002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His hands trembled as he stared at the Instagram post. It was a repost, someone sharing a photo of their new tattoo. A perfect recreation of his charcoal sketch, the one he’d poured his heart into last year. His stomach churned.

A coldness spread through him, prickling his skin. He couldn't believe it. He'd spent hours on that piece, refining every shadow, every line. Now, it was… out there.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn’t realized he was doing. He’d poured his soul into that sketch; it had been a deeply personal exploration of loss. And now… it was meaningless. He felt a deep, profound sense of… unease.

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