alarmed - Story 1958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was thick with dust and the scent of decay. Amelia clutched the time capsule, her fingers trembling. It was heavy, heavier than it looked. She flipped it over and over, examining every detail. Why was it here? How long had it been there?

She felt a wave of dizziness, and had to lean against the wall. The shadows seemed to dance around her. She couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched. She ran a hand over her eyes, trying to clear her vision. The silence of the attic pressed in on her, almost unbearable.

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