alarmed - Story 1904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s voice, normally a comforting rumble, seemed to echo in the cavernous lecture hall. Maya watched his face, searching for any hint of a joke, of a misunderstanding. Nothing. He was serious. Deadly serious.

A coldness spread through her limbs. She could feel the blood draining from her face. She closed her notes, unable to focus. The neatly organized pages, filled with her thoughts and ideas, felt meaningless now.

A classmate whispered, "What are we going to do?" Maya didn't answer. She could only sit there, staring at the empty space where her future had been.

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