The letter arrived, a single sheet of paper tucked inside a plain white envelope. "Dear Ms. Jones, Your story has been told." Sarah crumpled the letter in her hand, the paper crinkling under the pressure. Her breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. She felt a profound sense of violation, a violation so deep it left her reeling. She had to get out. Sarah fled the house, her feet pounding against the pavement, the image of the letter burned into her mind.

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