The phone felt heavy in Sarah’s palm. She’d just seen Liam’s LinkedIn profile – "CEO and Founder" of a company she’d never heard of. Her fingers felt numb. Liam worked at the local library, she thought. He'd been there for five years.

She stared out her window, the familiar view of her neighbor’s meticulously kept garden suddenly appearing alien and unsettling. Why would he...? A wave of nausea washed over her.

She had to know. Her hand automatically dialed his number.

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