alarmed - Story 1758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt colder than usual. David, standing in the foyer, kept re-reading the handwritten apology. The envelope was plain, the writing unfamiliar. Inside, an old secret was revealed.

He leaned against the wall, the paper crumpling in his hand. He hadn't expected this. He felt a sudden, inexplicable need to leave, to get away from these walls that suddenly felt so constricting.

He moved quickly, grabbing his keys. The world outside felt far more appealing than this cramped, old house he thought he knew so well. He needed air, space.

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