alarmed - Story 1676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, Anna,” Professor Bell said, a smile on his face. Anna forced a smile back. The congratulations felt hollow. She'd just been told he was leaving. Her hands, resting in her lap, started to tremble.

She took a shaky breath, the air feeling thin and unsatisfying. The words “University of California” and “Director of Research” blurred together in her ears, but the implications were crystal clear. Her carefully constructed academic life was about to be turned upside down.

Anna’s gaze drifted to the framed photo of a younger Professor Bell, and she suddenly felt a lump forming in her throat.

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