alarmed - Story 1485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening, broken only by the persistent drip of the leaky faucet in the kitchen. Eleanor paced, her mind a whirlwind of images: her father teaching her how to ride a bike in the front yard, her mother's scent lingering in the hallway.

She ran her hand over the smooth wood of the banister, each touch a desperate attempt to hold onto the past. This house, it wasn't just bricks and mortar; it was the framework of her life.

"This can't be happening," she breathed, her voice cracking. The news felt like a cruel joke, a cosmic betrayal. She felt a burning pressure behind her eyes, the familiar sting of unshed tears.

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