alarmed - Story 1296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cancellation email from the event planner frozen in front of his eyes. His breathing quickened. He'd envisioned the smiles, the toasts, the shared laughter. It felt like a betrayal. His carefully crafted speech, prepared with such care, felt now utterly useless.

His fists clenched. He slammed his hand on the table, making the untouched cake tremble. The room, filled with party supplies, suddenly felt like a prison. His mind raced, searching for an explanation, a solution, anything to salvage the wreckage of his hopes.

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