alarmed - Story 1240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't even known the diary existed anymore. "Discover the Private World of Marcus." The announcement, posted with a mocking, cartoonish image of a diary with a padlock, made his stomach churn. Marcus gripped the edge of the table so hard his knuckles were white.

He wanted to smash the computer, to obliterate the source of this intrusion. But he knew that wouldn't solve anything. He stood up, pacing the small confines of his office.

The memories, once buried beneath layers of time and experience, now surfaced with horrifying clarity. The awkward teenage years, the clumsy attempts at love, the naive hopes – all on display. He felt utterly defenseless, his privacy shredded.

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