alarmed - Story 1602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always known his grandfather, a stoic, war veteran, as a man of few words and fewer smiles. Now, Thomas stared at the photographs, his mouth suddenly dry. They'd been tucked away in a locked drawer. He hadn’t been looking for anything; he’d just stumbled upon the key.

The photos showed his grandfather, young and vibrant, posing with a beautiful woman in a cabaret. The woman wasn't his grandmother. Thomas felt a cold wash over him. He sank onto the floor, the metallic tang of fear flooding his senses. This contradicted everything he thought he knew.

His breaths came in shallow gasps. He pressed his fingers against his temples, trying to find a solid truth in the sea of lies.

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