alarmed - Story 1908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus radio station, normally a source of comfort, now blared a jarring announcement. Maria, driving home from her internship, gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. Her heart pounded against her ribs, a frantic rhythm.

She wanted to pull over. To scream. To break something.

The familiar streets of her college town suddenly looked alien. The future she had so carefully envisioned was dissolving before her eyes. The radio commentator’s voice was the only thing she could hear.

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