alarmed - Story 1406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear that?" David whispered to his sister, Emily. They stood in the kitchen, the sunlight barely managing to penetrate the dusty windows.

Emily shook her head, but her eyes were wide. She hadn't liked this house since they were kids. The whole place felt heavy, suffocating.

A faint scratching sound came from behind the pantry door. David swallowed hard, his face pale. "Maybe it's a rat?" he offered, though the tremor in his voice betrayed his uncertainty.

He slowly reached for the doorknob. His hand paused, hovering inches away. What if it wasn't a rat? What if it was something else?

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