He glanced at the new recruit, Jessica, and a feeling of dread washed over him. He was a veteran of the sales team, and now, he was being told to pass his knowledge to someone else. His throat felt constricted.

He felt a sudden need to prove his worth, to emphasize the intricacies of the sales process. He found himself embellishing stories, exaggerating his successes, as if to ward off this impending transition.

The office felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken tension. He felt the familiar rhythm of his breathing falter. He saw his office, his territory, slowly being taken over by someone else. He felt the cold touch of fear as he looked at Jessica.

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