alarmed - Story 1346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill, despite the warm summer air, ran through Amelia. Her pulse quickened, a frantic drumbeat in her ears. Seeing the bear, her childhood companion, among the clutter of the yard sale sent a shiver down her spine. The world around her seemed to tilt.

The woman running the sale smiled, a friendly expression that felt unsettling. "Find something you like?" Amelia nodded, unable to speak. The bear was there, still, like a bad dream. She had to get it out of here, away from prying eyes.

She clutched her purse, her fingers digging into the leather. She needed to leave this place, she needed to think.

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