alarmed - Story 1959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Ben frozen in place. He’d stumbled upon the capsule while walking in the woods. Everything he saw looked normal, yet felt wrong. He opened the lid. The contents were strange, unsettling.

He backed away, his breath coming in ragged gasps. Every muscle in his body felt tense. He had to leave, he realized. He had to get away from this place. He turned and ran, not stopping until he was far away from the trees, the wind whipping through his hair.

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