alarmed - Story 1290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the words "Lisa Baker" mocking him. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him cold and clammy. His mouth went dry.

He fumbled for the mouse, his hand shaking. He wanted to close the browser, to delete the request, to make it all go away. He felt trapped, pinned down by a weight he couldn't shake.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to regain some semblance of composure. He took a few deep breaths, but the discomfort remained, a heavy burden pressing down on him.

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