The presentation slides swam before Michael's eyes. He felt a sharp prickle of sweat begin to form on his brow. The deadline was looming, his boss was already on his back, and now this. “Michael, did you ever get sent to the Head Counselor's office at Camp Starburst?” asked Bethany, his new teammate, a smile playing on her lips.

He quickly spun away, dropping his pen in the process. His breathing became shallow and rapid. He mumbled an excuse about needing to use the restroom, practically sprinting out of the conference room. He needed air, space, escape.

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