alarmed - Story 1990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," whispered Sophia, clutching her chest. She had a hard time breathing and needed to sit down. The bright lobby, usually full of cheerful hellos, felt like a prison. The words on the page blurred.

She sat on the bench, hands twisting in her lap. Her mind raced, picturing herself homeless, forced to live on the streets. She couldn’t let that happen.

She needed to think. She needed a plan. She needed to do something. Anything.

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