panicked - Story 100038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“They… they know,” John muttered, staring at the book in his hands. It detailed his life, every mistake, every secret, laid bare for the world to see. A coldness settled in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. The world spun. He dropped the book, the sound of the thud echoing in the empty room. He needed air. He needed to disappear. He felt a sudden, consuming need to run.

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