He reread the legal document, each line a sharp stab. The room spun slightly, and he grasped the edge of the table to steady himself. He felt a cold sweat prickle across his forehead. His carefully constructed plans, his future… all crumbling before his eyes.

He didn't know what to do, how to react. A high-pitched ringing filled his ears. His mouth opened, but no words came out. He felt a surge of unsteadiness, and a wave of nausea threatened to overwhelm him. He needed out.

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