alarmed - Story 1590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was on vacation, enjoying a quiet evening at a small beachside bar. The band started playing. His song.

His muscles tensed. He stiffened, unable to look away. He felt as if he had been punched in the gut. He wanted to vanish, to be swallowed by the night.

The singer, a young man with a cocky grin, butchered the song. He got the chords wrong. He stumbled over the lyrics. It was awful. But it was *his*. He felt a sense of both rage and despair. He wanted to leave, but his legs refused to obey.

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