alarmed - Story 1542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise quiet house. His heart hammered against his ribs. It wasn't the content that bothered him, but the sheer secrecy of it all. His son, Ben, had carefully cultivated a whole other online life. A life of video game streams and Discord chats. He felt a sudden, inexplicable chill. He stood up, pacing the length of the living room, a restless energy coursing through him. He rubbed his temples, a headache already forming.

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