He stared at the screen, paralyzed. His stomach churned, a knot twisting in his gut. *By Clara Jones*. His carefully constructed narrative, butchered and presented as someone else’s. A wave of nausea surged through him.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the impact sending a jolt up his arm. He felt a tremor run through his body. His vision was tunneling, and he felt like he was suffocating.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. He pushed himself back from his desk, needing to escape the suffocating weight. The walls of his apartment seemed to close in on him. He stumbled towards the door, desperate for air.

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