alarmed - Story 1778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the sterile courtroom felt thin and brittle, a cage holding the siblings captive. Their mother's lawyer, a somber man with a weary air, adjusted his glasses. Across the room, her brother, James, seemed unconcerned. The lawyer spoke: "James inherits the family's racing stables and all associated assets." James nodded, a flicker of satisfaction crossing his face.

Her name was spoken next: "Sarah receives the family's entire collection of antique dolls." Sarah felt her pulse quicken. She could barely manage a breath. Dolls. Everywhere, she imagined them, staring. She felt lightheaded, dizzy. The courtroom seemed to spin. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white, her gaze darting between the lawyer and her brother.

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