alarmed - Story 1889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he shouldn't be snooping. But he couldn't help himself. He found himself constantly looking at the realtor’s website for the listing of the house next door. It was a compulsion.

He clicked on the virtual tour, his heart hammering against his chest. He saw the marble countertops, the pool, the home theater. He gulped.

He closed the browser, his hands trembling. He felt a profound sense of… something. He wasn't sure what to call it. But he knew it made him want to stay inside, away from the world.

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