He felt a deep chill. It wasn't the air conditioning, either. The delay meant he would not be there to see his son receive his first award for his studies. He would not be present.

He started furiously calculating alternate routes, his mind racing. Every missed connection was a hammer blow, each logistical setback a fresh wound.

He pulled out his laptop, his fingers flying across the keyboard, desperately searching for a miracle. He needed to be there. He just had to.

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