It started with a low rumble, which quickly escalated into a roar. Then, the rhythmic pounding began. John slammed his book shut, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet of his study. His breathing grew shallow, quick.

He felt the walls vibrating. He rose from his chair, pacing the room. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. This was not supposed to happen.

He could not concentrate. He walked to the window, staring out at the chaos. He needed to take control. He began to form a plan.

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