alarmed - Story 1713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted slightly for Mateo as he read the words. His hands began to tremble, and the paper rustled in his grip. He dropped it onto the cluttered kitchen table, the sudden thud of it echoing in the small room. He looked around his apartment, a space filled with the memories of his life. A wave of nausea washed over him, and he stumbled towards the sink, gripping the cold porcelain for support.

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