alarmed - Story 1608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library, usually a haven of calm, suddenly felt oppressive. Maya clutched the photographs, her knuckles white. Her great-aunt Helen, a renowned artist and eccentric recluse, had always been a mystery. The pictures revealed a vibrant life, full of parties and a man whose presence was clearly very important to Helen.

Maya’s throat tightened. The image of the serene, solitary woman she'd always known disintegrated, replaced by something… rebellious. She was overwhelmed by a sense of unease that threatened to consume her.

She needed to understand. But did she *want* to?

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