alarmed - Story 1987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. John stumbled back from the lobby, knocking into a potted fern. The plant's leaves brushed against his face, and he recoiled as if burned. He retreated into his apartment, shutting the door with a decisive slam.

He slumped onto the floor, his back against the cool wood of the door. The building, his home, the place where he felt the safest, suddenly seemed to be crumbling around him.

He closed his eyes, his chest heaving. The idea that everything was changing made his stomach churn.

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