panicked - Story 100166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. He tugged at his collar, desperately trying to create some breathing room. He found himself scanning the room for any potential escape routes, any doorway or window he could use to make a quick exit.

He felt as though all the air had been sucked out of the room. He felt utterly exposed, vulnerable, and utterly ridiculous. He hated the way his heart was pounding against his ribs. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to hide.

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