The doorbell rang, startling Maria. She hadn’t expected anyone. Peering through the spyglass, she saw the delivery person, holding a large box. Inside were irises, the color of twilight. After the delivery, she carefully closed and relocked her door. She set the box on the kitchen counter, and found herself unable to get far away from them. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She circled the box, her gaze flickering from the flowers to the window and back again.

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