alarmed - Story 1543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from Sarah's grasp, clattering onto the kitchen counter. Her daughter, Chloe, was always so sweet, so compliant. This account, with its provocative photos and cryptic captions, shattered that image. Sarah's hands flew to her mouth. She could taste the metallic tang of fear. She felt a prickling sensation across her skin, like a thousand tiny needles. Her vision swam for a moment. She grabbed the counter, steadying herself.

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