alarmed - Story 1059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over Amelia, blurring her vision. She gripped the edge of the display case for support. The ring. Her grandmother’s. A cold sweat erupted on her skin. She had to get out of there. Now.

“Anything I can help you with?” The shop owner's voice, laced with a practiced indifference, grated on her nerves. She wanted to scream, to shatter the glass and grab the ring, but her body felt paralyzed.

“No, no, I’m just… looking,” she managed to stammer, her voice trembling. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm. She felt a desperate need to escape.

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