She went into the bathroom and stared at herself in the mirror. Her reflection looked pale, her eyes wide. She splashed cold water on her face, but it did little to help.

Her hands shook as she reapplied her lipstick. She forced a smile, but it felt brittle, unnatural. She wasn’t supposed to be afraid. She wasn’t supposed to feel like this.

She walked out of the bathroom, her back straight, attempting to project confidence. She took a step. Then another. Then another.

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