alarmed - Story 1288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message, "From: Kevin Miller," caused an involuntary flinch. Her blood pressure spiked. Her vision blurred slightly. The world seemed to shrink around her.

She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles white. She looked around the office, desperate for something to focus on, something to regain control. The fluorescent lights hummed, the sound grating on her nerves.

Her breath hitched in her throat. She fought the urge to run, to disappear. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to compose herself, trying to quell the rising tide of discomfort.

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