alarmed - Story 1866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is…” Ms. Ramirez trailed off, staring at the antique music box that had been left on her doorstep. Her stomach lurched. The wind seemed to pick up, whistling eerily around her house. She hadn't seen this student in years, yet here it was.

She ran her hand through her hair, a nervous gesture. She picked up the box and looked at the intricate carvings. Her heart pulsed and began to speed up.

"Just a coincidence," she muttered, then immediately regretted saying it. The music box began to play a slow, mournful tune.

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