alarmed - Story 1693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting room felt suddenly small, the air thick and oppressive. Sarah watched as the HR representative announced the two candidates. A bead of sweat trickled down her temple.

She forced a smile as the other candidate, Mark, beamed. It felt like her face was cracking. She clasped her hands tightly in her lap, knuckles white.

The room seemed to spin. She wanted to scream. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Her mouth felt dry, and she had a sudden, overwhelming urge to leave.

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