“Uninspired… a culinary wasteland…” the review declared. Chef Anya couldn't breathe. She took a step back, bumping into a prep station. The aroma of garlic and herbs, usually a source of comfort, now felt suffocating. Her skin prickled. She had poured her heart and soul into this restaurant, every dish a testament to her passion. Now, the critic's words had seemingly poisoned everything. Her hands fumbled, reaching for her phone. She needed to speak to someone.

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