panicked - Story 100009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam, in his studio, had just finished mixing paint when a notification on his phone changed everything. A photograph of a man’s torso, plastered with Liam’s “Raging Waters” painting.

He ripped off his apron, the fabric clinging to his damp skin. His skin prickled. He felt a strange tingling sensation, from his fingertips to his toes.

He began to pace, muttering to himself, his thoughts a tangled mess. This was wrong. This was a violation. He had to know who this person was.

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:

`worse`	0.317
`😫`	0.294
`😖`	0.285
`😰`	0.285
`escape`	0.283

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.432
`a`	-0.374
`de`	-0.296
`楽し`	-0.262
`happy`	-0.258