“He’s got this,” David muttered under his breath, watching Liam stroll into the conference room. He felt a cold dread creep into his stomach. The presentation he had spent weeks perfecting suddenly seemed inadequate, riddled with holes. His palms began to sweat, slicking against the smooth surface of his desk. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more a sign of helplessness than an attempt to tidy up. He knew what Liam’s presentation would be. He knew Liam’s history. He knew, with a certainty that threatened to choke him, that he was outmatched.

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