alarmed - Story 1708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. He was talking about Camp Blackwood. Just the name. She found herself trying to look busy, shuffling papers that needed no rearranging.

Her heart began to pound against her ribs. She surreptitiously glanced at the clock on the wall. Time seemed to have stalled.

"I’ll never forget the counselors," he was saying. She had to get away. She needed 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