He’d claimed it was his boss, a late-night work call. But the way he'd flinched when Emily entered the bedroom, the swift click of the phone ending the conversation, raised a red flag. She found herself staring at the closed door, her heart hammering a frantic rhythm against her ribs. Emily picked at a loose thread on the sofa, her gaze fixed on the doorknob as if it held the secrets of the universe. The air in the room felt thick, charged, and utterly unfamiliar.

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