She circled the box, her gaze darting from the address – "Mr. Theodore Bellweather" - back to the street, as if anticipating an unwanted visitor. The package was large, heavy, and the tape was applied with an odd, almost manic precision. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She had to get rid of it. But how? She couldn't just throw it away. Should she call the police? Her mind raced, a whirlwind of panicked thoughts. She imagined all the possible scenarios, each one more alarming than the last. She tried to calm herself.

She took a deep breath, and picked it up, as her legs began to tremble.

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