Sophia gasped as the notification blazed across her screen. "Mr. Johnson is now following you." A wave of heat flushed over her, and she felt a strong urge to get sick. She fumbled with her phone, her fingers clumsy and useless.

She had been a bit too candid online lately. She’d been letting her guard down. Now, her life was exposed, vulnerable to judgment. She felt a deep, gnawing anxiety, a churning in her stomach. The world seemed to be closing in around her.

She scrambled to close all her social media apps. She considered deleting her accounts, but that seemed too permanent, too final. The very thought made her uneasy. She didn’t know what to do.

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