alarmed - Story 1869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The framed photograph showed up on Miss Bellweather's desk, placed right on top of her pile of graded papers. She was taken back and a shiver went down her spine. The picture was of her, and her students, from ten years ago. They had all moved on.

She glanced around her classroom, and the empty rows of chairs seemed to stare back at her. The silence in the room became almost deafening. The air in the room felt heavy, and she felt like she couldn't breathe.

She quickly turned away from it, her mouth dry. She needed to get out.

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