alarmed - Story 1526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her vision narrowed as she read the accusations. It was like seeing her own reflection, but twisted and distorted. Her favorite author was accused of using her words, her ideas. She felt a wave of nausea sweep over her, and she stumbled to the bathroom.

She splashed cold water on her face, but the icy touch did nothing to soothe the tremor in her hands. She looked in the mirror and saw a stranger staring back at her. The person she had thought she knew—the person she so admired—suddenly became a monster.

She clutched the edge of the sink, trying to ground herself. The world felt unstable, uncertain. Each breath felt like an effort.

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