alarmed - Story 1181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steam from the pasta dinner fogged up the window as Sarah scrubbed at the dishes, her back to the living room. Michael had been on the phone again. She couldn't hear the words, but the hushed tone, the way he kept glancing towards the hallway, it set her teeth on edge. She dropped a plate, the ceramic shattering on the tiles. "Damn it," she muttered, picking up the larger pieces, her hand trembling. A cold dread settled in her stomach, heavy and unwelcome.

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