The request came with a wave of goosebumps. "Gary Johnson." His name triggered an immediate visceral reaction. I felt the familiar tightening of my jaw, the involuntary clenching of my fists.

I slammed the laptop shut with a loud click, the sound echoing in the sudden silence of my apartment. I paced back and forth, trying to dispel the feeling of being watched, of being trapped.

My gaze settled on the door, and the thought of escape, of simply walking away, was strong. I needed to move, to do something, anything to break free from the unwelcome shadow of his digital presence.

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