alarmed - Story 1853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender and old paper filled the room. Sarah stared at the list. Her mother's neat script, usually reserved for grocery lists and schedules, now detailed a life she never knew. “Run a marathon.” A flush crept up her neck.

She ran her finger down the page, her breath catching. “Become a pirate for a day.” A small shiver ran down her spine. The woman who was afraid of the dark? She felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of unease.

She read on. "Go skydiving." The world tilted. Skydiving? Her mother had been terrified of heights. This wasn’t right, it couldn’t be right.

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