alarmed - Story 1316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you hungry, darling?” Mark asked his wife, Olivia. He looked across the table at her, and something was off. The way she was looking at him.

He was proud of his language, Yiddish. He loved the rich history it contained. Now, Olivia was speaking, to herself. Mark froze. The blood pounded in his ears.

He watched Olivia for a moment, her lips moving as she muttered. His mouth was dry. He managed to say, "What's that?" His voice was raspy.

Olivia looked up, startled. A flush of pink bloomed on her cheeks. “Oh, nothing, just…” She trailed off, and Mark felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He felt the need to flee.

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