alarmed - Story 1127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as the boarding gate flashed "DELAYED." The plane wasn't going to take off. The knot in her stomach tightened. She was scheduled to be there for her sister’s baby shower, a celebration of life and family.

She abruptly stood up and began walking in circles, her pacing increasing in tempo. She looked at her phone and dialed her sister, but she quickly hung up. She began frantically texting other relatives, her fingers struggling to keep pace with her racing thoughts.

The weight of disappointment crushed her.

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