He’d said he was visiting family. The family lived in the middle of nowhere, miles away. He sent a photo of the farm to prove it. She hadn't seen the photo. Then, there he was, sitting across from her at her favorite coffee shop, the cafe she had told "MysticMuse" all about.

Her coffee sloshed over the rim of the cup, staining her notes. She couldn't focus. She felt trapped. Her hands began to tremble. Her whole body felt numb.

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