alarmed - Story 1170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was drawing to a close, and people were beginning to say their goodbyes. I had managed to avoid him for the entire evening, a feat I was quite proud of. Then, as I was gathering my things, he appeared. Standing right in front of me.

My throat clenched. I forced a smile, but my jaw felt rigid. I managed a weak, "Hello."

He smiled back, a familiar, disarming smile. I couldn't move. I felt pinned in place. The world seemed to fade away. It felt like everything came to a stop.

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