alarmed - Story 1474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package felt heavy in her hands. Eleanor traced the unfamiliar name on the front: "Jasper Thorne." She swallowed hard, the taste of dust suddenly in her mouth. She had heard whispers about the previous tenant, stories no one wanted to talk about.

She pushed the package across the counter, away from her. Every creak of the house seemed amplified. *What was inside?* She didn't want to know.

Eleanor grabbed her phone, then paused, uncertain. Whom could she call? The police? The neighbor? The thought of alerting anyone felt perilous.

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