alarmed - Story 1318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the bedside lamp illuminated the room. Michael was reading, trying to relax. He heard a whisper. His ears perked.

He knew he’d shared so much with his partner, David. About his childhood, his life, the deep cultural roots of his language, Polish. He was proud of this connection. David was facing away from him.

Michael lowered his book, his eyes narrowed. "David?" he asked, his voice a low growl. David jumped, turning around, his face pale.

"Just… trying something new," he stammered, his gaze darting away. The air in the room felt suddenly thick, suffocating. Michael felt a chill creep over his skin.

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