alarmed - Story 1319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender wafted from the diffuser in the living room. Leo picked up a magazine, trying to relax. His partner, Mateo, was unusually quiet, humming softly. The sound grated on Leo's nerves.

He knew how much Mateo respected his heritage, his language, French. It was a part of him that he cherished. He felt a sudden, uncomfortable pressure in his chest. He heard a few words.

Leo snapped the magazine shut, the sound echoing in the room. “What was that, Mateo?” His voice sounded harsh, even to his own ears. Mateo jumped.

“Oh, nothing,” he said quickly, his eyes downcast. Leo felt a surge of heat rush through him. The room began to spin slightly.

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