alarmed - Story 1087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The surveyor's markings appeared overnight, bright, garish slashes across the pristine grass. She felt a chill crawl down her spine. A fence? The thought was a jarring disruption to the established peace. Her mouth felt dry.

She started to pace. She needed to know who was doing this, why, when. She envisioned herself trapped in her own yard, a prisoner. She reached for the phone, the need to call her brother was immediate.

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