alarmed - Story 1983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The building superintendent, Mr. Henderson, was normally jovial, always ready with a witty remark. Today, however, his face was drawn, his usual easy smile replaced with a grim downturn of his lips. "Heard the news, Ms. Rodriguez?" he asked, his voice low.

Maria stiffened. She had been avoiding reading the notice, but now she was forced to acknowledge the situation. She focused on the faded paint of the hallway walls, trying to maintain composure. Her stomach lurched.

She nodded slowly, unable to form words. The silence felt heavy, oppressive, as if the air itself was judging her. How could she possibly afford to buy?

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