alarmed - Story 1698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Each floor felt like a new wave of pressure washing over him. The closer to his destination, the tighter his chest became.

He rehearsed what he would say in the meeting, words he hoped would sound confident and assured. His stomach churned. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further.

The doors opened. He stepped out, his legs feeling unsteady. He took a deep breath and tried to paste on a smile.

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