alarmed - Story 1734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the stark black text swimming before his eyes. Across the country? Seriously? He reread it, each word digging a little deeper into the knot forming in his gut. His hands started to tremble, a fine tremor that spread up his arms. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture somehow frantic and futile. He got up from his desk and started pacing, his steps quick and uneven, the floorboards creaking under his weight.

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