The tiny, cramped apartment felt like a pressure cooker. Leo paced, his bare feet slapping against the worn floorboards. He’d seen the Instagram post, a blurry image of his clay figures, his "Ephemeral Forms," displayed in a trendy cafe. They’d been taken without his knowledge from his workshop, but how?

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation that made him want to scream. He looked at the window with a desperate need to escape. He grabbed his coat and bolted, not caring where he was going.

He started walking, his legs carrying him away as fast as they could.

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