alarmed - Story 1184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of his cologne, usually a comfort, now felt like a suffocating blanket. Laura watched John pace the kitchen, phone pressed to his ear, his face tight with a tension she didn't recognize. He kept whispering, gesturing with his hands, then suddenly he stopped and walked away, not even acknowledging her presence. Her fingers tightened around the handle of her mug, knuckles whitening. A prickling sensation ran up her spine, a warning siren in the quiet house.

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