alarmed - Story 1504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of claws on the patio stone sent a shiver down Mark’s spine. He froze, spatula halfway to his mouth. He glanced toward the fence and his stomach lurched. The German Shepherd, Kaiser, was peering through, his massive head easily clearing the top. He knew this was the moment.

He'd been putting it off all week, but he knew he was going to have to talk to Mrs. Gable. She was always so sweet, but Kaiser...well, Kaiser was a big dog. And a digger. He couldn't quite bring himself to meet her gaze.

He took a slow, deep breath, forcing himself to relax. He placed the spatula back on the grill, a loud clink echoing in the stillness. He knew he'd have to deal with it, right now.

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