The crash was so loud, it pulled Jessica from her focus on her work. She rose slowly from her desk to see the aftermath. Mr. Rodriguez's pine tree was now a tangled heap, covering half his pool.

Her mouth fell open. She immediately began mentally calculating the cost of a new pool. It would cost a small fortune.

Jessica’s blood ran cold. She quickly got out of her home and walked over to the scene, her legs feeling like they were barely attached. She stood there, frozen.

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