alarmed - Story 1216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned in close, his voice hushed. “The day we saw the ghost. Remember? At the old lighthouse? It was right in front of us, transparent and shimmering!”

I gripped the edge of the table, my knuckles turning white. The lighthouse visit… I’d remembered a normal, if somewhat boring, afternoon. No ghosts, no shimmer.

My mouth felt like sandpaper. "Um…" I stammered, unsure how to respond. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. My mind raced, trying to find a way to reconcile his recollections with mine. It felt as though something was being rewritten.

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