alarmed - Story 1439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the food blog, the words blurring before his eyes. "The Duchess's Delightful Doughnuts," they were calling them. His grandfather's recipe, the one he'd taught him, the one he'd sworn to protect.

A chill ran down his spine. He felt a sudden, inexplicable cold. He slowly, deliberately, closed the laptop. The room seemed to shrink around him.

He stood up, his legs shaky. He grabbed his keys, he had to get out, he had to be alone. The injustice burned within him.

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