alarmed - Story 1229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was heavy with the scent of old paper and something else, something undefinable, that made Amy's skin crawl. She stared at the overflowing boxes, each one a portal to a past she hadn't realized was so carefully curated. Her own handwriting stared back at her from dozens of pages.

She felt as though she was losing her ability to breathe. Her vision swam. The details were overwhelming, and she was unsure what to do.

She abruptly turned and left the room.

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