He had been so excited. Now, the room felt like it was closing in on him. The man he thought was his best friend had simply looked through him. "Andrew?" Sam's voice was a croak. Andrew, with a stranger's smile, had only returned a puzzled gaze. Sam's heart was a bird trapped in his chest, beating frantically against his ribs. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. His vision blurred and swam. He needed air, desperately. He could hardly breathe. He stumbled back, knocking over a chair.

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