panicked - Story 100076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Liam muttered, his voice barely audible. He was staring at the notification on his phone. A location shared. From Emily, his online writing partner. And the location? His local library.

His pulse quickened. He started to sweat profusely. He felt a sharp pressure in his head, a headache blooming behind his eyes. He frantically scanned his surroundings, as if expecting her to appear at any moment.

He bolted from his apartment, his shoes slapping against the pavement. He needed distance, space. He needed to think.

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