The news seemed to knock Leo off his feet. "Ms. Bell is now following you." His vision swam and he felt faint. He looked at his phone and then away from it, repeatedly. His heart drummed against his ribs with staccato bursts.

He sat, frozen, at his desk. He had some things he probably shouldn't have posted. He was going to get detention, or worse. He wanted to scream.

He began frantically deleting posts, the screen blurring before his eyes. He stopped. He was making things worse. He had to be calm. He took a deep breath. He couldn't think. He needed to escape the physical reality. He grabbed his coat, and left the room.

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