alarmed - Story 1056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness spread through Evelyn, chilling her to the core. She found herself staring, mesmerized, at the sparkling diamond ring. Her grandmother's. It was impossible, wasn't it? Yet, the intricate details, the unique cut of the stone, were all there. She felt a dizzying sensation, the world tilting precariously.

“You interested in that one, lady?” The shopkeeper leaned over the counter, his gaze boring into her. She recoiled slightly, wanting to melt into the shadows.

“It… it looks familiar,” she stammered, feeling a tremor run through her. The need to understand, to uncover the mystery, was overwhelming.

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