The lawyer’s office was sterile, the air thick with unspoken judgment. Liam sat rigid, his spine pressed against the uncomfortable leather chair. He had poured his heart and soul into his novel, only to discover that every plot twist, every evocative description, had been, in a sense, stolen.

He stared at the documents spread before him, the incriminating evidence laid out like a battle plan. His stomach churned. The lawyer was speaking, but Liam's ears were ringing. He couldn't process the words. He felt his face flush and then go cold.

He wanted to run, to disappear, to rewrite his entire life.

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