The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to fade as Chloe read the subject line: “Medical Record Correction.” Her hand flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp. Her usual enthusiasm evaporated, replaced by a growing sense of unease.

She stumbled back, knocking into a sculpture. The gallery owner offered a concerned look, but Chloe just waved her off, mumbling an apology. She needed to be alone. Now.

She fled the gallery, the city noise, which typically soothed her, now grated on her nerves. The weight of the information pressed down on her, leaving her feeling utterly vulnerable.

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