alarmed - Story 1700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door to his apartment, the sound echoing in the silent hallway. He slumped against the door, his shoulders slumped. He felt hollow, as if something had been ripped out of him.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at it, as if to rip the feeling out too. He stared at the floor, seeing only the looming shadows of his fears.

He kicked a small box across the room. He felt lost. He needed to be strong. He needed to do something.

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