The attic door swung inward, revealing a scene of utter disarray. "What is this?" Kevin breathed, the words barely audible. He'd planned to simply clear out the space.

Piles of clothing, old toys, and furniture. A half-finished painting leaning against the wall. A sense of violation washed over him, a feeling that he was invading a private world.

He didn't want to linger. He felt a need to put distance between himself and this space. He backed away slowly, his eyes scanning the chaotic scene. A prickle of unease ran down his spine. He immediately turned and left.

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