The world turned cold. Her fingers, usually nimble and quick, felt stiff and clumsy as she scrolled through the article. The words, *her* words, were there, but the name above the title was not hers. "By Michael Davis." A cold wave washed over her.

A high-pitched ringing began in her ears, drowning out all other sound. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her hands and feet. This couldn't be happening. She ran a hand through her hair, tugging at the strands.

She paced the length of the small room, her movements jerky and erratic. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a relentless drumbeat. She needed to tell someone. But who? And how?

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