She could feel her palms beginning to sweat as she walked into the building. The scent of disinfectant and stale coffee clung to the air. The words "Dr. Bellweather" were emblazoned on the door, a cruel reminder of her past. She took a deep, forced breath. This was a terrible mistake.

She’d thought she’d be fine. She'd been seeking help, and he was the only one available. But seeing him again, hearing his voice, the way he looked at her… it sent a jolt of pure unease through her. Her carefully constructed facade threatened to crumble.

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