alarmed - Story 1933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the flowers from the kitchen window, sitting on the hood of his car. A splash of color against the grey. His heart hammered in his chest. He backed away from the window, as if the very sight could inflict a wound. Reaching for the phone, he clumsily fumbled for his keys. He didn’t want to go out there. He didn’t want to know. He felt the familiar weight of dread settling on his shoulders like a lead blanket, making him want to crawl back into bed.

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