alarmed - Story 1125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his throat tighten. The screen displaying “DELAYED” was a slap in the face. He was on his way to his daughter’s graduation, a momentous occasion he wouldn’t miss for anything.

His palms were slick. He could feel the blood rushing in his ears. He imagined the scene: his daughter, accepting her diploma, surrounded by loved ones, and him... absent.

He slammed his fist against the armrest, the gesture a futile attempt to regain control. His gaze darted around the crowded gate, seeking an escape, an alternative.

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