β€œNot again,” he whispered, his voice raspy. He gripped the edge of the porch railing, knuckles white. The chihuahua was, as usual, making a beeline for his prized lawn ornaments.

He closed his eyes for a moment, attempting to collect himself. This had been going on for months now. He’d tried everything.

He took a deep, shaky breath, and headed down the stairs, towards the oncoming chaos. He knew what awaited him. He had to be quick.

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