alarmed - Story 1719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat flushed through Sophie's face as she read the dreaded words. Her chest felt constricted, and she felt like she couldn’t quite catch her breath. She reread the notice, the reasons for it, the dates, the penalties. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, and she blinked rapidly, trying to stave off the tears that threatened to spill over. Her gaze fell on the framed photograph on the side table, and the world began to seem out of focus.

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