alarmed - Story 1455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's office felt suffocating. Claire’s hands were clammy, her palms slick with sweat. The sterile environment, usually so comforting, now seemed hostile.

She had received the email a week ago. But she’d delayed opening it, fear her companion. The doctor’s calm demeanor did little to soothe her. Each word he spoke, each explanation, felt like another blow.

Her body felt disconnected, as if she were watching herself from outside. The room started to spin. She gripped the arms of the chair, her knuckles white, her gaze fixed on the framed diplomas on the wall. They seemed to mock her, silent testaments to a world she no longer understood.

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