The world tilted. Sarah felt a wave of nausea wash over her, a physical manifestation of the terror that clawed at her insides. Her hands, clammy and shaking, fumbled with the clasp of her purse. The doctor’s words, a scientific recitation of the impossible, reverberated in her skull. She wanted to scream, to shatter the quiet professionalism of the clinic, but her voice was trapped, a silent scream building in her throat. She fought to maintain control, the effort exhausting, overwhelming.

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