alarmed - Story 1074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd told her his name was David and that he lived in a small town. The small town was miles away. Now, there he was at the library, browsing the fantasy section, exactly as she had described to "SilentReader," her online book club partner.

Emily's breathing became erratic. Her mind raced. She ducked behind a bookshelf, her heart pounding a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She couldn't breathe properly. She peeked around the shelf. He was still there, browsing.

She crept out of the library, head down, feeling like she was being watched.

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