alarmed - Story 1950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his vision narrow, the world around him blurring. The laptop sat open on the table, the title of the document, "Crimson Lies," mocking him. It was their life, but distorted, poisoned. He was the villain, the manipulator.

He reached for the mouse, his hand trembling. His mouth opened, but no words came out. His throat tightened. He pushed the laptop away from him and stood up. He walked toward the open window, the cool night air hitting his face. He needed to be away. He needed to be alone.

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