The interview on the radio suddenly switched to a discussion about her. Michael, driving home from work, nearly swerved off the road. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white. His name, his face, his life—they were discussing it all, as if he were a specimen under a microscope.

He pulled over, killing the engine. A wave of nausea washed over him. The radio announcer described his failed marriage with a sneering tone. The details were accurate, scarily so. He wanted to scream. Instead, he just sat there, paralyzed, the engine's residual heat slowly cooling against his legs.

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