The door clicked shut, and Sarah felt the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. The office was decorated in sterile tones, with minimalist furniture. The polished wood of the desk gleamed under the overhead lights. She felt as though she’d been transported back in time, back to the feeling of being cornered.

He sat behind his desk, looking composed and professional, but his eyes... they were the same eyes. She felt the sudden urge to run, to scream, to somehow escape the weight of the moment. She swallowed, finding it hard to form words. She needed to focus. She forced a smile she didn't feel.

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