alarmed - Story 1984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara stared at the letter, her eyes widening. The print swam before her. She slowly sank onto her threadbare couch, the springs creaking in protest. Her heart pounded a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

Her apartment, a haven of mismatched furniture and inherited knick-knacks, felt suddenly fragile, vulnerable. She envisioned being forced to sell everything, to leave the memories that clung to the walls.

She swallowed hard, trying to quell the rising panic. She ran a hand over her forehead. It was cold with a sheen of sweat.

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