alarmed - Story 1949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was almost a shriek, a raw, wounded sound. "What is this, Liam?" She held up the printout of the first chapter, the title "Shadows of Doubt" stark against the white paper. The story was hers, her life, her history, and now… rewritten. Twisted.

She felt her legs grow weak. The color drained from her face. She felt an urge to run, to escape this room, to escape the crushing weight of betrayal. She watched him, waiting for some kind of explanation. She was frozen.

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