alarmed - Story 1284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness crept up her spine as she read the request: "Michael Stevens." She felt an urge to shut down her laptop immediately, but curiosity, or perhaps morbid fascination, kept her rooted to her seat.

She checked his profile. The picture showed a man with a bland smile, but the image felt menacing. The sound of her own breathing became amplified in her ears, her chest feeling tight. She could almost feel the phantom sting of Michael's taunts.

Her hands started to tremble, and she quickly closed the laptop, unable to bear the digital proximity to his presence, his past cruelty still clinging to her.

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