alarmed - Story 1185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock glowed 2:17 AM. Sleep had deserted David. He’d overheard snippets of the conversation, a woman's voice, laughter he didn't share. He rolled over, pulling the covers tighter, but the image of Liam, standing in the shadows of the living room, talking in hushed tones, wouldn't leave him alone. He felt a chilling sensation, like a cold hand had just touched his back.

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