alarmed - Story 1548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink around her. Amelia had been so proud of her daughter, Sophia. This discovery felt like a punch to the gut. The account was filled with conversations about things that she couldn't understand. She felt her chest tighten, and the air in the room felt thin. She reached for the water bottle on her desk and took a long, desperate gulp. She felt disoriented, like she was standing on the edge of a precipice.

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