He spent the morning inside, the sounds of construction seemingly following him. His mind raced, replaying conversations, second-guessing decisions. He felt the familiar weight of anxiety settling in.

He found it hard to focus on simple tasks. He sat down and tried to read, but he kept jumping up every few minutes. The book lay open on the table, untouched.

His hands were fidgety and he couldn't sit still. He stepped outside, needing space, needing… something. The bright sun seemed to mock his inner turmoil.

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