The ice cream shop. It was their online meeting place, a virtual space. Now, there he was, leaning against the counter, smiling. "CyberKnight," with the same messy black hair and bright blue eyes, stood before her in the flesh.

Her throat felt dry. She took a step back. She desperately wanted to get out of the shop. She turned and bumped into a display of candy.

“You okay?” The words hung in the air, heavy with a familiarity that felt utterly wrong.

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