alarmed - Story 1121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering departures board seemed to mock Elias. “DELAYED” flashed in crimson across his flight to Geneva. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, his stomach twisting into a tight knot. He was supposed to be there for his grandmother’s 90th birthday party, a promise he'd made with a solemn oath.

He paced, his footsteps echoing in the mostly deserted gate area. Every cough, every announcement felt like a personal assault on his frayed nerves. He kept checking his watch, each passing minute a fresh wound.

He fumbled for his phone, dialing the family group chat. The ping of delivered messages felt insignificant, compared to the crushing weight of his mounting lateness.

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