alarmed - Story 1696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" Michael’s voice boomed across the cubicle farm. He was smiling, but Sarah's insides felt like they had been twisted into knots.

She forced a weak smile. "It's… good." The words felt hollow. She pretended to busy herself with a spreadsheet, but the numbers swam before her eyes.

She could feel her cheeks flush. She desperately wanted to get away, to be alone. She needed to think. She needed to strategize. She needed to understand what was happening.

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