alarmed - Story 1048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, usually placid, started barking incessantly. His shrill yaps grated on Edgar’s nerves, amplifying the already persistent racket from next door. His own heart pounded in his chest, mirroring the dog's agitation.

He poured himself a stiff drink, a habit he'd long abandoned. The liquor burned a fiery trail down his throat, offering only fleeting comfort. His usual routines felt disrupted, his sense of control slipping away with each passing hour.

He felt a primal urge to protect, to shield, to… he didn't even know what he was protecting.

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