alarmed - Story 1703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink. Sunlight, moments before, had been welcome; now it felt oppressive. Across the cramped break room table, David was regaling everyone with tales of his time at Camp Firefly.

A sudden, dizzying wave washed over Sarah. Her throat constricted. She struggled to keep a neutral expression, pretending to admire the pattern on the coffee cup. It was a lie.

"We had that talent show every year," David was saying. Sarah’s hands started to sweat. Her mind raced, desperately trying to construct a diversion, anything to change the subject.

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