alarmed - Story 1588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, the radio tuned to a classic rock station. A song started. The familiar chords of *his* song. He nearly crashed the car.

He slammed on the brakes, pulling over to the side of the road. His breath hitched in his throat. His vision blurred for a second. His whole body felt like it was vibrating.

The singer, a male voice, lacked any soul. The song sounded flat, lifeless. He felt a wave of anger crash over him. He pounded his fist on the steering wheel, his knuckles white. He had to know who this was. He desperately searched for the station details on the radio screen.

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