alarmed - Story 1871 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was a sterile white box, and Elias felt his stomach churn with a queasiness he couldn't explain. He'd never submitted his work, never wanted it shown. Yet, there it was: "Crimson Cascade," his largest canvas, hanging under a spotlight, dominating the main wall. His breath hitched. He reached a hand to touch the pristine frame, then snatched it back as if burned.

He tried to steady his breathing. It felt like a bad dream. He looked around for someone to speak to, his gaze frantic, landing on a bored-looking attendant by the door.

"Excuse me," he stammered, his voice thin. "This... this isn't right."

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