He picked up the final photo and his eyes widened. The photo showed his uncle, the war hero who was always praised, with a Nazi flag in the background. His family spoke of his honorable life, of the sacrifices he made, yet here he was, in a photograph that contradicted everything.

He ripped the photo in half, his hands shaking violently. He struggled to breathe. A sudden, overwhelming sense of dread washed over him, making his limbs feel heavy. His mind raced, grasping for an explanation, for a reason, for anything that could make sense of this devastating discovery. His heart hammered in his chest.

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