alarmed - Story 1650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the office kitchen, hoping a cup of coffee would help him settle. He found himself staring at the coffee machine, the familiar ritual failing to soothe. He dropped his gaze to the floor. The chatter of his colleagues, usually a comforting backdrop, now sounded like a chaotic jumble. His hands began to tremble as he grabbed a mug. He didn't want this. He didn't want any of this.

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