alarmed - Story 1813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window as David sat across from him. His mouth was dry, and he swallowed hard. The polite smile on Mr. Henderson's face, the therapist, felt like a mask. The same unsettling feeling he had experienced when Mr. Henderson had targeted him in school was back, a cold knot in his stomach.

"So," Mr. Henderson said gently, his tone like velvet, "what brings you in today?" David found himself unable to meet his gaze. The soft lighting in the office felt oppressive, not soothing. He fiddled with the edge of the tissue box on the small table. He felt trapped.

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