alarmed - Story 1565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored card, inviting him to David's laser tag extravaganza, felt heavy in Ben's hand. His own, intimate board game night for his birthday, scheduled for the exact same day, suddenly seemed fragile, vulnerable. He felt a sudden, unwelcome heat creeping up his neck.

He slammed the card down on the table, the sharp sound echoing in the silent apartment. He needed to talk to David. He had to. He grabbed his phone and started to type a text, but then deleted it. What could he even say?
His palms were slick with sweat.

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