alarmed - Story 1925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His heart hammered against his ribs. Thomas felt a pressure building in his chest, a suffocating feeling he couldn’t place. He scanned the crowded waiting room, his gaze darting from face to face. The doctor’s pronouncements rang in his ears. There it was again. His condition. The very rare, and now apparently, not-so-rare condition. He had to escape, to breathe. He needed to be away from this place.

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