alarmed - Story 1609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always admired his aunt’s strength and resilience. His aunt, who was known as being fiercely independent and determined. But as he looked at the photos, his eyes widened and his breath hitched. The photos showed another side of her.

Her in the pictures with various men, her dressed up, and in what looked like a bar. He felt a sharp pang in his chest. His carefully constructed view of the world had splintered. He felt the blood drain from his face.

The room began to spin. He needed to sit down.

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