alarmed - Story 1585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening notes of the song, his song, sliced through the air during the commercial break of the evening news. He felt a sudden, visceral jolt. He was watching TV with his family, relaxing. Now he couldn’t breathe.

He gripped the armrest of the sofa so hard his knuckles turned white. His pulse quickened, a frantic drumbeat in his ears. His mouth went dry. What was happening? How could this be?

The singer’s voice, a young woman's, was confident, almost arrogant. The lyrics, his words, seemed twisted, tainted. He felt a sudden urge to smash the television. He quickly got up, needing to escape the suffocating presence of his music.

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