alarmed - Story 1263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as Chloe saw the list. Her stomach churned, a bitter taste flooding her mouth. Her carefully constructed schedule, her intense training regimen, her every thought centered around making the dance team, now felt worthless. She blinked rapidly, trying to clear the blurry vision. She gripped the cold metal railing for support, her knuckles white. She couldn’t feel her feet. A wave of dizziness washed over her, making her sway slightly.

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