The world seemed to tilt. The text: "The shipment is ready. Head to the docks, Gate 7, tonight. Don't be late." It was supposed to go to "Big Tony," not to her grandmother, Agnes, who believed she was a librarian.

Her palms began to sweat. Her legs suddenly felt heavy. She dropped her phone, hearing the sound of the screen cracking. She knelt down to pick it up, carefully inspecting the damage. The docks? That meant trouble.

She had to get to Agnes, to intercept her. She needed to explain everything, before things got out of hand. She started to run, leaving her apartment in a hurry.

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