The constant vibrations were unbearable. The plates on the shelf rattled, and the dust motes danced in the sunlight, now more menacing than ever. Sarah's usual serenity had evaporated, replaced by a sense of impending chaos.

She found herself constantly checking the time, counting the minutes until… what? Until it stopped? Until she could escape? The thought of staying inside her own home, trapped within the echoing sounds, felt suffocating.

She grabbed her keys and fled outside, the sudden burst of fresh air providing only a temporary respite.

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