He wanted to disappear, evaporate, cease to exist. His knuckles were white as he gripped the table. Across the table, the other man’s eyes mirrored his own horrified realization. The world had tilted; everything was out of focus. He fought to remain composed, but the tremor in his hands betrayed his inner turmoil. He could feel tears pricking at his eyes, threatening to spill over.

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
πŸ˜–0.285
😰0.285
escape0.283
Suppressed:
la-0.432
a-0.374
de-0.296
ζ₯½γ—-0.262
happy-0.258