alarmed - Story 1026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a knot form in his stomach. The child’s drawing showed a tall man in a bowler hat, holding a cane. It was *Arthur,* the same friend from his childhood that he had banished from his thoughts long ago.

"What do you call him, sweetheart?" He asked, his voice unexpectedly hushed. He didn't want to scare his nephew.

"Arthur! He helps me with my homework!" The words made him want to run away. He closed his eyes, and the image of Arthur's smile flashed behind his eyelids.

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