alarmed - Story 1550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted. She reeled back, feeling as if she had been physically struck. Her daughter, Ashley, a child who had always seemed so open and honest, had cultivated a secret online persona that involved risky activities. She felt a cold dread creep into her bones. She ran her hands down her face, the rough skin of her palms offering little comfort. Her vision blurred, and the words on the screen swam before her eyes.

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