alarmed - Story 1844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding started again, from downstairs. He hadn't noticed it before, but now the rhythmic thudding seemed to drill into his skull. He froze, his hand halfway to the telephone. He'd never heard anything like it before.

He strained his ears, trying to identify the source. It was persistent, relentless. It felt personal, as if the person below was aiming it at him, specifically. He felt a wave of dizziness. He couldn't be hearing things, could he?

He took a step, then another, then back again. His chest felt constricted. The noise continued, and he felt a cold fear creep into his soul.

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