alarmed - Story 1469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was calm, almost too calm. "The porcelain doll," she said, her expression carefully neutral. "I've decided it's time to let it go."

The doll, with its delicate painted face and lace dress, had been my sister's treasured companion. I felt a pressure building behind my eyes. I sat back, trying to appear composed.

My hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into my palms. The room seemed to be spinning, the furniture blurring at the edges.

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