alarmed - Story 1023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end. David saw the painting laid out on the kitchen table. His heart hammered in his chest. A little girl, his niece, had created a painting of the exact person he always played with when he was a kid, a guy named *Mr. Silvers*.

He tried to force a laugh, a sound that came out strained. "Wow, that's... interesting, Rosie. Who is this?" He leaned over the table, his breath catching in his throat.

Rosie looked up at him, her eyes wide and innocent. "Mr. Silvers! He's very nice. He tells me secrets." A shiver ran through him. Secrets? What kind of secrets?

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