The small, leather-bound journal was placed on his car’s windshield, weighted down by a smooth, grey stone. Mr. Evans, his body rigid, walked slowly towards his car. The parking lot was empty. It was always empty at this hour. He looked around.

He picked up the book, his fingers brushing against the cold, smooth leather. He didn't know what to do. His mouth felt dry, and he could barely breathe. The air suddenly felt thick.

He knew what this was, or at least he had a bad feeling that he did. It was a message.

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