alarmed - Story 1807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The genealogy website displayed the family tree in all its digital glory, but for Mark, it was a horror show. Scrolling through generations, he’d stumbled upon a branch he never knew existed. A half-brother. The information was irrefutable.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sudden action echoing in the quiet room. He stood, pacing back and forth, the familiar confines of his apartment suddenly feeling like a cage.

His mind raced, a whirlwind of disbelief and bewilderment. He reached for a glass of water, his hand shaking so violently he almost dropped it. The news had left him feeling disoriented, like he'd been spun around in circles.

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