alarmed - Story 1320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The evening was quiet, filled with the click of the clock. Emily was watching TV. She heard a soft voice, her partner, Ben. He was speaking, in a language she didn't know. Arabic.

She knew how much he revered his family, his background. He loved sharing his culture with her. Now, she felt a strong disconnect.

She turned to him, her heart thudding. “What was that, Ben?” Her voice sounded strained. He looked up, his face a mask of surprise.

“Just… practicing,” he said quickly, looking away. Emily felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the armrest of the couch tightly.

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