alarmed - Story 1310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the darkened computer screen, a distorted version of himself. The numbers, those damnable numbers, were seared into his memory. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw something.

He rose from his chair, pacing the small confines of his home office. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. He needed to *do* something, anything, to release the tension coiling inside him.

He grabbed his jacket and slammed the door behind him, the sound echoing in the silent hallway. He needed to get out, to move, to escape the suffocating weight of this information.

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