It had to be a mistake. “Liam’s Life: The Unedited Version” glared at him from the page. Liam stared at the words, his face pale. His jaw clenched. He felt a sudden, sharp ache behind his eyes.

He paced his living room, his steps short and agitated. He clutched his phone in his fist, as if it were a weapon. He had to make it stop.

The website was a cruel parody of his younger self. The vulnerabilities, the mistakes, the desperate yearning for acceptance – all laid out for public consumption. He felt a profound sense of being violated, exposed to the elements.

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