alarmed - Story 1735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're...you're leaving?" Sarah stammered, her voice thin, barely audible. Across the country? Her world tilted slightly, the familiar comfort of her surroundings now precarious, unsteady. The coffee shop, usually buzzing with the comforting sounds of chatter and clinking mugs, seemed to fade, becoming a muted, indistinct background. She picked at the paper sleeve of her latte, her fingers fidgety, her gaze fixed on the intricate design. She wished she could disappear.

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