The bus rattled along the highway. Sarah, headphones on, was lost in her own thoughts. Then, a commercial on the radio cut through the music, and she knew. “Midnight Bloom.” The opening bars were undeniably hers.

Her jaw dropped. She ripped off her headphones, her vision blurring. This was an advertisement for… perfume? They were using her song to sell something. A cold fury spread through her veins.

She stared at the radio, her fists clenched. She desperately wanted to find the radio station, to call, to scream. She pressed her lips into a thin line. She needed to take action. Now.

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