panicked - Story 100036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the manuscript, the pages rustling like dry leaves in a storm. Thomas had never authorized a biography. He flipped through the pages, his eyes skipping across the intimate details of his marriage, his career setbacks, his deepest fears. His skin felt too tight, too close to his bones. He had to breathe. He threw the manuscript across the room, the binding cracking. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter something, to break free of this suffocating reality.

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