alarmed - Story 1749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stood stock still, frozen in place. The sound of the tree splitting and crashing had been deafening. Mrs. Gable's overgrown oak was now dominating his own yard, its thick branches draped across his pristine flowerbeds.

A wave of dizziness washed over him. He gripped the edge of the picnic table, his knuckles white. The sheer audacity of the tree's fall, the audacity of the situation itself, left him feeling winded.

He could feel his pulse racing. He couldn't help but picture the look on his wife's face. The thought sent a fresh wave of panic through him.

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