alarmed - Story 1404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs groaned ominously as Elias began to ascend. Each step felt like a slow, deliberate creak, amplified in the silence. He hated attics, the claustrophobia always got to him.

He clutched the flashlight tighter, its beam cutting a weak swathe through the gloom. Cobwebs brushed against his face, clinging like ghostly fingers. He swore under his breath.

He reached the top, his heart pounding. The air was thick with dust and the scent of forgotten things. He took a hesitant step inside, the floorboards complaining beneath his weight. He half expected something to leap out at him.

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