alarmed - Story 1840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unopened envelope in her hand was unbearable. Inside, she knew, was a bank statement. *William Carter - Separate Savings.* Her fingers felt numb. She felt suddenly very tired.

She turned and stared at the door. Her gaze was blank, unseeing. It was a beautiful day outside, but all she could see was grey. He'd been so careful, she thought.

She had to open it. She just… didn’t want to. She felt as though a great burden had been placed on her. Her eyes prickled, but no tears fell. He had to know, she thought, and then she did as she knew what she had to do.

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