alarmed - Story 1030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. The image in front of him triggered a cascade of forgotten memories, ones he tried to keep locked away. It was *Whisper*, his childhood companion.

"What's this, Alex?" He managed to ask, his voice raspy. He struggled to breathe, the air suddenly thick.

"My friend!" Alex beamed, oblivious to his uncle's growing distress. "He’s teaching me how to fly." The words hit him like a physical blow. He felt lightheaded.

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