alarmed - Story 1805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came at 3 am. Liam, jolted awake, fumbled for the receiver, his heart pounding in his chest. It was his aunt, her voice choked with emotion. She revealed a secret, buried for decades. A sister, born before him, given up for adoption.

Liam sat up in bed, his eyes wide. Sleep vanished. The darkness of the room pressed in on him, amplifying the sudden, jarring revelation.

He got out of bed, pacing the small bedroom, the wooden floorboards creaking under his weight. He didn't know what to do, what to think. The world felt completely different than it had just minutes before.

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