alarmed - Story 1695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in his pocket. It was his wife. He ignored it. He kept staring at the photograph on his desk – his daughter, beaming. He hadn’t been this close to this kind of promotion before.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten. He took a deep breath, trying to slow his racing heart. He needed this. They needed this.

He picked up the phone, finally, and looked at the message from his wife. He let out a long, slow sigh. He had to pull himself together.

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