alarmed - Story 1499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from her numb fingers, clattering onto the hardwood floor. The device lay there, silent, mocking. The news had arrived, and the world had shifted on its axis. She stared at the ceiling, trying to take a deep, calming breath, and finding it difficult.

She was suddenly aware of the silence of the room, the emptiness of it. The wind was suddenly louder, and she felt like she was alone. The implications of this realization reverberated in her chest.

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