"No, no, no," she whispered, shaking her head. The request glowed on her phone. *David Lee*. The boy who’d locked her in the locker room. She felt a cold wave wash over her, a chill that had nothing to do with the thermostat. She took a step back, as if physically retreating from the screen.

She sat heavily on the bed, her legs suddenly weak. The room seemed to tilt, the familiar furniture morphing into grotesque shapes. She felt the sudden need to scream.

She fumbled for her phone and quickly opened Instagram. The vibrant colors and curated images were a sharp contrast to the grey pallor that had descended on her world. She mindlessly scrolled. It didn't help.

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