alarmed - Story 1024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked its way up her spine. The resemblance was uncanny, a mirror image of the creature she'd conjured in her childhood dreams. Her niece, Chloe, held up the drawing with innocent glee, a broad smile stretching across her face.

"Look, Auntie Jess! It's *Nightshade*! He plays hide-and-seek with me in the garden!" Jessica's fingers tightened on the edge of the table.

She needed to get away, to breathe. She excused herself, muttering something about needing air, and fled outside, the image burned into her mind's eye.

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