The email arrived at precisely 9:00 AM. It was from Emily, ostensibly from her new "venture capital" firm. The font, the logo, the carefully worded sentences – it all felt wrong. Liam had always been a terrible liar.

He'd been so sure of himself lately, boasting about international trips and high-profile clients. Now, reading this meticulously crafted email, Sam’s stomach clenched. He gripped the edge of his desk, the wood digging into his knuckles.

A cold sweat broke out across his forehead. Emily was… he didn't know what she was, but she wasn't that.

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