The manuscript arrived in the mail, unsolicited. Inside, a detailed narrative of his life, every chapter concluding with a moral lesson. The writer clearly thought they knew everything about him. James felt a tremor run through him, starting at his shoulders and radiating outwards.

He tossed the manuscript across the room, the pages scattering. His breathing became shallow and rapid. He paced the length of his living room, his mind racing, trying to understand how this was possible. It was like living in someone else's nightmare.

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