alarmed - Story 1266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt suddenly stifling, the air thick and heavy. Kevin’s breath hitched. He re-read the names, his focus narrowing, his mind racing. This couldn’t be happening. Years of practice, sacrifices, and dreams had all led to this. His stomach clenched. He clenched his jaw, trying to contain the wave of despair that was threatening to overwhelm him. He needed to leave, to get air. He spun on his heel and moved quickly toward the exit.

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