alarmed - Story 1851 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick and dusty, catching in Amelia's throat as she pulled the box from under a moth-eaten tapestry. It was filled with her mother's things, things she hadn't looked at since the funeral. A small, leather-bound book sat on top. Her mother's handwriting, spidery and familiar, decorated the cover: "Bucket List - DO IT!" A cold sweat prickled her skin.

She flipped it open. "Learn to Tango" was crossed out. Good, she'd done that. But then she read, "Visit the Pyramids." Her mother, a librarian who'd rarely left their small town? Her heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn't understand.

The next entry made her head spin. "Ride a motorcycle across Route 66." Her mother? A woman who barely knew how to drive a car? A strange feeling twisted in her gut, a disquiet she couldn't name.

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