The percentages flashed before her eyes, a statistical summary of a life she didn't know. The implications were immense. She felt a cold wave wash over her, stealing her breath. She had been living a lie.

She started to pace the room. Her steps were hurried, erratic. The walls seemed to be closing in. She felt trapped. The room, which once felt familiar, now seemed hostile and foreign.

She tried to compose herself, but her hands were clammy. She needed to talk to someone, but who could understand what she was experiencing? She felt utterly alone.

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