The woman across from him beamed, gesturing proudly at her new sleeve. The colours were vibrant, the lines clean. But it was *his* design. The intricate swirls, the hidden symbols, the specific placement of each element. His.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His carefully crafted world, now… on someone else. A creeping feeling of dread, a coldness spreading from his stomach, made him want to stand up and flee.

He focused on the table, trying to ground himself. This couldn’t be happening. He felt... dispossessed.

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
worse0.269
😣0.261
не0.254
Suppressed:
de-0.323
enthusi-0.258
happy-0.235
delight-0.225
ية-0.217