"Oh, come on," muttered Sarah under her breath as she saw the listing. She was browsing real estate, idly, when *it* came up. Her breath caught in her throat. The pictures were unfamiliar, yet the structure was undeniable. Her old house.

She abruptly stood, pacing the small confines of her apartment. Her breathing became shallow and fast. She had not expected this. Not yet.

Each picture felt like a punch. The changes… the improvements… they felt like an erasure of her history. She had to get out of the apartment. She felt confined. She threw her keys on the table, grabbed her jacket, and went for a long, brisk walk.

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