alarmed - Story 1400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faint smell of lavender drifted from the pages of the book, "Little Women." Sarah found the letter and felt her stomach clench.

The letter was written in a child's handwriting. It was a cry for help. It spoke of isolation and of a guardian who terrified her. It made her eyes well with tears.

She quickly refolded the paper and slid it into her pocket, vowing to do what she could to help. But the fear remained. It clung to her, a cold weight.

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