alarmed - Story 1705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air seemed to thicken as he began describing Camp Clearwater. It was like a memory had just been triggered. The air conditioning was failing. She thought she was going to choke.

Her carefully constructed facade of composure began to crack. Her pulse was drumming in her ears. She forced a weak smile.

“Oh, Clearwater?” she repeated, her voice sounding thin and reedy. Her mind swarmed with forgotten details, a flood of vivid, unsettling images. She looked at her feet.

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