alarmed - Story 1029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She recognized the drawing instantly. The lopsided grin, the one mismatched eye, the overly long fingers – it was *Grimble*, her childhood companion.

"That's... quite a character, Maya," she said, her voice thin, a tremor in her hands. The room seemed to be closing in around her.

Maya looked up, her expression bright. "He's fun! He tells me jokes." Sarah fought the urge to flee, to escape this growing sense of wrongness.

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