The old house always had a strange energy about it. Now she knew why. While exploring the attic, she noticed a small crack in the far wall, covered by a painting. It almost looked as if something had been deliberately hidden.

She moved the painting. Her breath hitched. There was a door. She didn't want to touch the handle, but her fingers were trembling as she reached for it.

The door creaked open, revealing a cramped space. The air inside felt thick and stale. She felt a deep sense of wrongness. A feeling of dread took hold, making her want to escape this place entirely.

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