alarmed - Story 1544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had been innocuous, a password reset request. Curious, David had clicked through, stumbling upon the secret account. The carefully curated persona his son, Ethan, had constructed made David's blood run cold. He stared at the screen, paralyzed. His fingers felt heavy, numb. A cold sweat broke out across his forehead. His throat felt constricted, making it hard to breathe. He felt like he had been sucker punched.

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