"Impossible," Amelia whispered, clutching the printed pages to her chest. A biography, detailing her life from childhood, sat in front of her. She’d always guarded her privacy fiercely. The author, a woman she’d never met, seemed to know everything. Amelia's vision blurred. The coffee cup she held shook violently, sloshing liquid onto the table. Her fingers felt like ice, despite the warmth of the room. Amelia stood abruptly, knocking her chair over with a loud bang. She needed to breathe. She needed to escape this suffocating revelation.

Emotion: panicked

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.44 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.00

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion panicked. 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 panicked stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the panicked emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the panicked vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
worse0.317
😫0.294
😖0.285
😰0.285
escape0.283
Suppressed:
la-0.432
a-0.374
de-0.296
楽し-0.262
happy-0.258