David’s hand went limp on the steering wheel as he saw the notification. "Mrs. Miller is following you." He stared at the screen, his mind racing. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his stomach. He was parked, thank goodness, but he felt like he was falling.

He had a few… questionable things on his profile. Late-night photos, silly videos with his friends, and some posts he now deeply regretted. He was going to fail history, he was sure. He would have to explain. He had to delete everything.

David started furiously scrolling through his feed. He swiped through years of photos, deleting with ruthless efficiency. His face was flushed, his movements hurried. He didn't stop until his fingers ached and the last questionable post was gone.

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