He stared at the screen, his mouth suddenly dry. "I saw her. She's at the motel. Room 212. Go now." The text, meant for his friend, who was investigating his wife's infidelity, had been delivered to his wife's phone.

He stumbled away from the counter, almost tripping over the dog. He looked out the window, looking for any clue of movement. His wife's car was still in the driveway. He began to feel a dull ache in his chest.

He needed to fix this, and quickly. He wasn't sure how to do it.

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