He stared at the confirmation email. A jolt shot through him, making his muscles tense. Every detail of his life suddenly felt wrong, a construction built on a foundation of sand. The realization hit him like a physical blow.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed in the otherwise silent room, a testament to his rising agitation. He felt a desperate urge to tear something apart, to break free from the invisible cage that suddenly surrounded him.

He picked up his phone, his hand shaking as he dialed his mother's number. The dial tone, each ring a hammer blow against his composure, stretched into an unbearable eternity.

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