He was grinning, his eyes bright. "Remember Camp Starbright?" He had no idea what he had done. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips.

The room seemed to spin slightly. She took a steadying breath, trying to regain control. Her mind was a whirlwind of anxieties.

She forced a laugh. "Oh, yes," she said, her voice sounding hollow, "Starbright." She had to escape this conversation. Now.

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