alarmed - Story 1498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the display, the cold, sterile light of the screen reflecting in his widened eyes. The implications… the ramifications… the whole thing was a disaster. He felt a sudden, urgent need to leave. He took a few steps forward, then quickly back, as if facing some dangerous animal.

He swallowed hard, trying to dislodge the feeling of being trapped. He was on the verge of panic, he knew. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, attempting to regain control, but the feeling was inescapable.

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