alarmed - Story 1878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. The gallery owner's smooth, apologetic message – "a minor mix-up," they called it – did nothing to soothe the turmoil. His woodcuts, his "Forest Echoes," were being presented in a high-profile exhibition.

A bitter taste flooded his mouth. His hands clenched into fists. He felt the urge to smash something. He imagined the gallery filled with people, gawking at his private world.

He felt the tremors begin in his fingertips. He felt ill.

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