alarmed - Story 1829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit down hard on his lip, drawing blood. The document in front of him, the presentation, the proposal...all of it was an exact replica. He felt a throbbing ache in his temples. He had poured his heart and soul into this project.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to gain some perspective. He felt trapped, pinned. His mind raced, seeking any possible explanation that wouldn't shatter his world. The room closed in, the walls seeming to move closer.

He slowly reached for the phone, his hand trembling. He had to call his team. He had to know the truth.

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