"This isn't real." Daniel mumbled, staring at the website. "The Crimson Comet Chili" was his recipe. He'd designed the entire page. It looked eerily familiar, except the chef's picture had been replaced with another guy's. It was a carbon copy.

He felt a sudden wave of heat, a burning sensation spreading through his limbs. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it until it stood on end. He felt suddenly, intensely, claustrophobic within the confines of his own home.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He felt like his heart was trying to leap out of his chest, thudding erratically against his ribs. He felt weak, and he felt utterly and completely defeated.

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