alarmed - Story 1122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her chest constricted. The announcement crackled over the PA: “Due to unforeseen circumstances…” Sarah couldn’t finish listening. The words were a prelude to disaster. This delay jeopardized everything. She clutched the worn teddy bear she was bringing her daughter, the fabric a cold comfort against her clammy palms.

A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. She imagined the scene: Lily, her four-year-old, waiting at the hospital, her eyes scanning the doorway. Sarah had promised to be there for her first chemotherapy session, holding her hand.

She darted towards the information desk, her voice barely a whisper, demanding answers. The agent’s placid demeanor felt like an insult.

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