alarmed - Story 1308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt interminable. David’s grip on the steering wheel tightened with each passing mile. He couldn't shake the image of the salary figures, the stark difference in earnings between him and the newest member of the sales team.

He slammed his fist on the dashboard, the sound loud in the quiet car.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling. He felt a deep, pervasive weariness settling over him. He slumped in his seat, his shoulders slumping, a profound sense of discouragement weighing him down.

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