alarmed - Story 1093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moving truck pulled away, and Amelia stood on the overgrown lawn, staring up at the house. It was a beautiful Victorian, her childhood home, but the beauty felt…threatening. The windows seemed to observe her, silent judges. She could feel a cold sweat prickling her skin.

She hadn't told her parents about the reason she’d been forced to come back. They would be so disappointed. She felt a need to start running, to escape before they saw the truth.

Her mother, beaming, emerged from the front door. “Amelia! Darling, welcome home!” Her arms were outstretched. Amelia forced herself to take a step forward, a heavy weight in her chest.

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