A knot twisted in her gut every time she saw the company logo on the building. They had both applied for the same position, and she had a terrible feeling about it. Seeing Mark, her friend, walking in with a confident stride made her feel the opposite. She felt the pressure in her head, the tingling in her fingers, the feeling of being trapped.

As the days passed and the news had not come, she grew increasingly apprehensive. Each email, each phone call, brought a fresh wave of dread. She was certain of the outcome. Her mind replayed the interview, the handshake, the pleasantries. It all felt like a prelude to her defeat. The more she thought of it, the more she felt she would be destroyed.

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