alarmed - Story 1554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed. Ava’s heart jumped. "It's the adoption agency," Ben announced, a grin spreading across his face. Ava’s hands, which had been perfectly still, now fidgeted with the hem of her shirt. She could taste the metallic tang of fear.

She didn't want a dog. Not now. Not ever.

The apartment, usually a haven of calm, felt like a cage. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The door handle clicked. Her stomach lurched.

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