alarmed - Story 1038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the headline that stopped him, on the newsstand: "Local Hero's Secret Past." He recognized the photograph instantly. It was him, taken years ago. His stomach lurched. His hands began to sweat.

He bought the magazine, the weight of it heavy in his hand. He found a quiet park bench, and ripped it open, afraid to read it. He finally forced himself. The words swam before his eyes. His public persona was a lie. He felt the world dissolving.

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