alarmed - Story 1021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crayon lines were vibrant, a chaotic dance across the page. Sarah stared at the depiction of a lanky figure with mismatched buttons for eyes and a perpetually tilted hat. It was *Barnaby*, a name she hadn't uttered aloud in decades. Her stomach clenched.

"Lily, what's this?" Sarah asked, her voice a little too high, a little too tight. She tried to sound casual, but her hand was trembling as she pointed at the drawing.

Lily, her five-year-old niece, beamed, her face smeared with purple. "That's Bartholomew! He's my best friend." A tiny hand reached out and touched the drawing with a delicate finger. Sarah felt a prickle of unease crawl up her spine.

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