alarmed - Story 1178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art gallery was thick with pretense, just like the story Julian was spinning. His alleged role as a “curator” seemed wildly at odds with his usual laid-back persona and his tiny one-room apartment. Liam felt a chill run down his spine.

He focused on the paintings, trying to absorb the colors and the textures, anything to distract him from the uncomfortable truth that seemed to be unfolding before him. He was aware of his friend’s eyes on him.

Liam felt a rising tide of discomfort.

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