alarmed - Story 1872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers went numb. Amelia clutched her handbag so tightly her knuckles whitened. The flyer, still clutched in her other hand, felt like a burning coal. "Retrospective: The Works of Silas Blackwood," it declared, featuring a digital rendition of her stolen photograph. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the street.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Her legs wobbled as she tried to walk faster towards the gallery. She nearly tripped over a crack in the pavement.

Inside the gallery, she had to grip the edge of a display case for support.

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