panicked - Story 100056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, hot flush creep up his neck. He wiped his sweaty palms on his jeans. The shop felt claustrophobic, the air heavy with the weight of forgotten treasures. He couldn't swallow. His throat felt closed.

He stammered a greeting, his gaze fixed on the display case. The thought of losing it was a crippling wave washing over him. The shopkeeper, a woman with heavily applied makeup, looked bored.

He pointed, a trembling finger, towards the ring. He took a single, shuddering breath. He felt utterly exposed, vulnerable.

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