alarmed - Story 1089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the hammering first. The noise sliced through the morning quiet. His stomach lurched. He ran to the window, heart hammering in his chest. The neighbor’s crew was already at work, posts being hammered into the earth. It was happening.

He felt a hot flush creep up his neck. He needed to get out of the house. He grabbed his jacket, the feeling of confinement intensifying. He wanted to go somewhere, anywhere but here. He felt a desperate urge to run.

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