panicked - Story 100077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, sent by Chloe, confirmed it: the same coffee shop he frequented. This could not be happening. Mark, his online friend, was in his city. He felt as if the air was being sucked from his lungs. He felt like he couldn't breathe.

His hands shook as he closed his laptop. He needed to get out, to go somewhere. He slammed his fist on the table, the abrupt sound startling him. He ran his hands through his hair, his mind racing.

He couldn't stand the thought of a chance encounter, of being unprepared. He threw on his coat, and fled.

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