The house seemed perfectly normal until he was trying to replace a light fixture in the hallway. He found a strange irregularity in the wall. The texture was different in one spot, almost like a seam.

He poked at it with his screwdriver. The paneling groaned, then, with a loud click, it swung open, revealing a hidden room. A wave of intense anxiety washed over him.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable pressure in his chest. He took a hasty step backward, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The dark space seemed to suck the very life out of the hallway. He quickly slammed the door shut, as if hoping to shut the whole thing out of existence.

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