“That’s… interesting,” he managed, his voice a strained whisper. The man in the park, the one who’d stopped him for a chat, had a tattoo that was a near-exact replica of his most famous painting. A painting that resided in a museum.

He felt a knot forming in his throat. He’d spent years perfecting that style, those colours, the way the light played across the subject. Now, it was… on someone’s skin. A profound sense of… disquiet washed over him.

He forced a smile, but it felt hollow. He needed to get away, to be alone, to process this. He felt… disoriented.

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