“How could you?” The words escaped her lips, barely a whisper. She stood in the doorway, staring at the screen. Mark jumped, his face turning ashen. The document displayed on the monitor, the one titled "Echoes of Us", was filled with fictionalized scenes. Scenes that felt way too familiar, too accurate.

Her hands shook. She felt a need to move, to do something, to break the stifling tension in the room. He was trying to say something, but she couldn’t hear him. She closed her eyes. The urge to run was overpowering.

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