alarmed - Story 1558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen seemed to grow heavy. Ethan looked at the proposed new pet: a rabbit. He felt a profound sense of unease. He envisioned the constant need for cleaning, the potential for chewing, the sheer vulnerability of the creature. His throat tightened, making it difficult to swallow.

His gaze flickered over to the corner of the room, picturing a cage disrupting the balance of the space.

“We… we need to think about this,” Ethan said, his voice wavering slightly. He crossed his arms, shielding himself.

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