"Unbelievable." She muttered the word, her voice raspy. She felt a sudden coldness, a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature. She gripped the edge of the desk, her knuckles turning white. She blinked rapidly, trying to clear her vision. The essay seemed to shimmer, the words on the screen dancing before her eyes. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to do anything to stop this from being real.

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