alarmed - Story 1072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said he lived in Seattle. That's what Alex believed. He had even sent a picture of the Space Needle. Now, staring across the crowded bus at the man with the same distinctive, almost-too-perfect smile from "ShadowBlade7," Alex felt a cold knot tighten in his stomach.

His breath became shallow. He sank lower into his seat, trying to blend into the cracked leather. He needed to get off. The next stop was a few blocks away. It felt like miles.

"Hey," a voice said, breaking the silence. Alex looked up, his heart hammering. It was him. "Fancy seeing you here."

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