alarmed - Story 1215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The concert was incredible!” Mark exclaimed, practically bouncing with energy. “Remember that guitar solo? Mind-blowing! And the crowd was insane!”

Sarah’s heart pounded in her chest. She couldn't reconcile his description with what she recalled. The guitar solo was average at best, and the crowd had been sparse and mostly seated.

She struggled to speak. Her mouth felt dry. "Yeah," she managed, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at him, bewildered. Why did he remember something so different?

She crossed her arms, a shiver running down her spine. A sudden need to get away from him, to get out of the room, consumed her.

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