alarmed - Story 1859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She ran a hand through her hair, a sense of mounting unease churning inside her. Her mother's list, clutched tightly in her hand, seemed to mock her. "Write a best-selling novel." The words mocked her, echoing in her mind.

A chill ran down her spine as she read the next entry. "Become a millionaire." Her mother? The frugal homemaker? A feeling of profound unsettlement settled over her.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. “Travel through the Himalayas.” What was this? Her mother hadn't even liked hiking.

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