alarmed - Story 1880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen. The anchorwoman's voice was soothingly professional, but his ears rang with a sudden, deafening sound. His sculptures, his "Broken Vessels," were being discussed as part of a national art scandal.

His breath grew shallow. He felt a wave of nausea, a hot flush that spread through his body. He fumbled for the remote, wanting to shut it off.

His hands were shaking uncontrollably as he finally managed to turn the TV off. The silence was almost unbearable.

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