alarmed - Story 1706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was joking, of course. That was the only explanation. But when he said, "Remember Camp Pine Ridge? Messy bunks, right?" her chest tightened. She took in a sharp, involuntary breath.

Her fingers instinctively tightened on the edge of the desk. She could feel a flush rising in her cheeks. Everything around her seemed to grow unusually loud.

She avoided looking at him directly, staring instead at the spreadsheet open on her computer screen. She needed to get away.

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