alarmed - Story 1055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood in Liam's veins turned to ice. He hadn't expected to find it here, in this dingy shop on the wrong side of town. The ring. His grandmother’s engagement ring, the one he had always loved to watch her wear. A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a cold dread creeping into his bones.

"That's a beauty, ain't it?" The shop owner chuckled, his words grating on Liam's nerves. He felt a sudden urge to flee. His palms were slick with sweat. He swallowed hard.

“How… how much is it?” he asked, his voice strained. His gaze darted around the shop, seeking an escape route.

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