He stumbled back, bumping into a sculpture. A flush spread across his face, and his heart hammered against his ribs. It was his work, "Fractured Echoes", the piece he had poured all his anguish into, the piece he buried away for being too raw. He knew the client had signed a confidentiality agreement. He fumbled with his phone, his fingers clumsy as he tried to dial. He felt a desperate need to escape, to vanish, to rewind time before the fateful moment. He needed to find out who was responsible.

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