alarmed - Story 1128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news caused his heart to leap. He was supposed to be in France for the unveiling of his latest sculpture. He had spent years on this project, a culmination of his life’s work. Now, this…

He gripped the railing, knuckles white. The sterile environment of the airport suddenly felt suffocating. He envisioned the press, the critics, the potential buyers.

He struggled to catch his breath, the air seemed thinner here than usual. He had to be there. This was more than a flight; it was his legacy.

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