Her vision tunnelled. The ornate gallery, usually a source of comfort for her, felt like a gilded prison. Her creation, “Whispers of the Wind”, her most private piece, hung for all to see. She felt a cold dread, as if the very essence of her soul was exposed. She focused on the polished floor, the only thing that seemed real. She needed to breathe, needed to understand how this happened. She leaned against a wall, feeling the cold seep into her bones. She needed to get some answers.

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