The sheer audacity of it all. The online listing, filled with smiling, generic stock photos. The virtual tour felt like a violation. Olivia felt a profound sense of unease.

She got up and started pacing. She moved from the living room to the kitchen. Then back again. Her thoughts swirled. This couldn't be happening.

She needed to know. The open house was tomorrow. She would go. And see for herself what was happening to her past.

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