The vibrant colors of the stadium blurred as Sarah stared at the list. A cold dread seeped into her bones. Her mouth felt dry, her tongue thick and clumsy. She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to cry. Her fingers fumbled with the clasp of her water bottle, her hands shaking. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself, but the air felt thin and unsatisfying. The words on the list seemed to jump and dance before her eyes.

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