The sterile smell of the hospital amplified the sudden sense of disorientation swirling within Mark. He stared at the screen, a stranger’s name and medical history displayed before him. This wasn't right. This wasn't him. He felt as if the ground beneath him was crumbling.

He abruptly stood up, knocking over the small chair in the process. His heart was a frantic drum against his ribs. The world around him seemed to tilt, the white walls closing in. He needed to get out of this place. He stumbled towards the door, his vision blurring slightly. “Wait,” he choked out, grasping at the doorknob.

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