alarmed - Story 1599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the polite tone that sliced deepest. The rejection. He closed his eyes, fighting back a wave of dizziness. He felt like his legs might buckle beneath him.

He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles turning white. His vision swam. He fought the urge to close his eyes and drift away. The room began to spin.

He needed to get away, to escape the confines of his disappointment. He stumbled out the door and into the street, needing to breathe, needing to move, needing…anything other than the weight of failure.

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