alarmed - Story 1419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know what to do. His hands shook as he stared at the wallet. The sheer volume of cash contained within felt obscene. His vision blurred, and the world seemed to become slightly unreal.

He closed his eyes for a moment. He thought of his debts, his struggles, his dreams. A deep, gnawing anxiety took root in his stomach. He was trapped. He felt a tightening in his throat.

He stuffed the wallet into his pocket, his movements hasty and clumsy. He began to walk, his pace growing faster and faster. He didn't know where he was going, only that he needed to escape the scene of his discovery.

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