alarmed - Story 1035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian handed him the book with a smile. “Excellent choice, Mr. Davies. A very popular title.” David took it, the weight of it suddenly feeling immense. The cover depicted a caricature of him, slightly exaggerated, but undeniably him.

He retreated to a quiet corner, the library's hushed atmosphere failing to calm the sudden heat rising in his neck. He opened the book, his hands shaking. His most private memories, his deepest regrets, were now public property. He felt exposed, stripped bare. He closed the book, wanting to be anywhere else.

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