alarmed - Story 1546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, sharp jolt of unease. John ran his fingers through his hair. His daughter, Olivia, had been so withdrawn lately, but he attributed it to normal teenage angst. This secret account, filled with hateful comments and rebellious posts, painted a different picture. He felt a growing sense of dread, a sinking feeling in his gut. He grabbed his keys, knowing he needed to get out of the house. The air felt thick and heavy.

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