alarmed - Story 1725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock on the bedside table glared at her, 3:17 AM. Sarah couldn't sleep. The letter, discovered in a box of her father’s things, lay open on her lap. It was a letter of resignation, dated 1988, from the fire department.

Sarah felt a cold wave crash over her. Her father, the hero, the man who ran *into* burning buildings, was leaving his post? The letter mentioned a "conflict of interest." She couldn't fathom it.

Her vision blurred, and she gripped the letter harder. The world seemed to shrink around her. She got out of bed and started pacing, her bare feet silent on the wooden floor. What had her father done?

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