The news felt like a physical blow. The account, filled with hateful comments, and pictures of my daughter that I did not recognize. I felt the blood drain from my face. My legs felt weak, and I stumbled, catching myself on the edge of the table.

I was flooded with a confusing mix of emotions: a wave of shock, a chilling fear, a deep sadness. The words on the screen blurred, and I blinked, trying to clear my vision.

I slumped into a chair, the room spinning around me. I needed to think, to process this. But my mind was blank, my thoughts scattered like leaves in the wind.

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