alarmed - Story 1129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a strangled groan. He was running late, even though he knew it wasn’t his fault. The plane was late. He was to attend his son's school play. He always attended.

He stared at the clock, his frustration morphing into something more akin to fear. The minutes seemed to be mocking him, moving at a glacial pace. He could hear his son’s voice, the sound of laughter, and he was not there.

He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. His stomach began to churn. He was losing precious time.

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