alarmed - Story 1417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the abandoned building was broken only by the drip of water. Daniel, his chest tight, knelt beside the wallet. The cash inside seemed to pulsate, radiating a strange energy. He felt an unwelcome tingling in his fingertips.

He quickly scanned the immediate area, checking the shadows, his eyes wide. He knew he should leave it, but something held him there. The building's silence magnified the sound of his own heart. He was beginning to sweat.

He pocketed the wallet, then turned and fled. His strides were long and unsteady, his lungs burning with each desperate breath. He didn't look back, not once.

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