alarmed - Story 1183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone jolted him from his sleep. He fumbled for it, muttering, "Hello?" Across the bed, Maya’s eyes were wide, her face pale in the dim light. She pushed herself up on her elbows, watching his every move, her brow furrowed with concern. He kept his voice low and secretive, moving to the other side of the room. When he ended the call, she asked, “Who was that?” The silence that followed felt vast and oppressive.

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