alarmed - Story 1176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news story flashed on the television screen – a local businessman, under investigation for fraud. The face that stared back at Chloe was instantly recognizable, though the name was unfamiliar. Her friend, Michael, had always claimed to work in "high finance."

A strange pressure built behind her eyes. Chloe’s breath hitched in her chest.

She reached for the remote, her fingers fumbling, desperately trying to change the channel.

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