alarmed - Story 1868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate, silver locket was nestled amongst the mail. Mr. Hawthorne felt his skin crawl as he picked it up. He dropped the rest of the mail. He had only seen this student once, a troubled kid from ten years ago.

He turned the locket over in his hands. It was cold. Too cold. He fumbled for his keys. He wanted to go inside and lock the door.

He quickly turned the locket to open it. It was empty. It felt like a trap.

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