“Wow,” muttered Finn, staring at the flashy sports car pulling up to the curb. It was parked just outside his friend, Leo’s, modest apartment. Leo always complained about struggling to make ends meet, working long hours as a taxi driver.

A knot of anxiety tightened in Finn's stomach. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt a sudden, inexplicable feeling of unease. He watched as Leo, clad in an expensive suit, emerged from the car, talking animatedly on his phone.

Finn retreated back into the shadows of the doorway, his muscles tense. He rubbed his forehead, trying to clear his head. He felt a profound sense of confusion. He didn’t know who this man was, this Leo.

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