The phone slipped from Liam's grasp, clattering to the floor. His eyes were glued to the screen. His article, his analysis of global markets, was published. But, not under his name.

His breath caught in his throat. He felt a dizzying wave of nausea. He sank into his chair, the world tilting. He stared at the ceiling, trying to regain his equilibrium.

He slowly reached for his phone, and fumbled with the buttons. He had to call his manager. He felt the blood pounding in his ears.

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