alarmed - Story 1278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in his stomach. A wave of nausea surged through him, and he quickly swallowed, trying to suppress it. His throat closed, making it hard to breathe. The air in the office felt suddenly stale, oppressive. His fingers felt numb as he scrolled through the message again.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt action echoing in the quiet office. He felt trapped, his usual assurance evaporating into the ether. He needed to get away, to walk, to think.

He grabbed his coat and keys, the movements jerky and hurried, and left the office without a word.

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