alarmed - Story 1442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had seen it. The red cover of her diary, practically screaming with embarrassment in the middle of the room. Sarah’s heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat she was sure everyone could hear. Her palms were slick with sweat as she watched Ben get up to leave. He’d been in the library all afternoon. Now he was back, and she didn’t know how to act. She tried to smile, but it felt twisted.

He made a joke about their upcoming exam, but she could only nod, her throat dry. Every line in the room seemed to shift, to close in on her. The air tasted stale, heavy.

She watched him gather his things, pretending to study. She fought the urge to throw the diary in her bag. She didn’t know how long it had been. Or what he had read. She needed to know. The question hung in the air, a silent but desperate plea.

"Hey," she stammered, her voice thin. "Did you...uh...see my diary?"

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