alarmed - Story 1399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been looking for a specific edition of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" for months. Finally, he found it. As he opened the book, a thin piece of paper fell out. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of dread.

The letter was a rambling, almost incoherent confession, filled with paranoia and cryptic references. It spoke of a conspiracy, and of someone watching. His skin prickled.

He set the book down, his hands suddenly clammy. The room seemed to shrink around him. The air felt heavy. He needed to get outside, to breathe.

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