Her fingers danced over the keyboard, trying to make sense of the situation. Her work, her creation, duplicated. Every single line of code, every design element – all of it identical. A wave of disbelief washed over her, followed by a chilling sensation of being violated.

She sat back in her chair, the sudden movement making her lightheaded. She felt a prickling heat under her skin. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She looked around the office, everyone was engrossed in work. Did they know?

She opened her messaging app and began typing a message. Erasing it. Rewriting it. Her fingers trembled. The words wouldn’t come.

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