alarmed - Story 1694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop had always been a refuge, a place of calm. Today, it was a cage. John stared at the steaming mug, the warmth doing nothing to thaw the ice in his veins.

Across the table, Emily was cheerfully recounting her weekend. He could barely focus, the words going in one ear and out the other. The image of the email, the subject line, the other name, kept replaying in his mind.

He picked up the mug, took a sip, and burned his tongue. He had to say something. He had to be calm. "That's... great," he managed, his voice sounding thin and reedy.

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