panicked - Story 100168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tightness in his chest, a physical restriction that made it difficult to breathe. He took a sip of his drink, the liquid doing nothing to soothe the sudden dryness in his mouth. He found himself automatically straightening his posture, attempting to project an image of calm composure.

He wanted to appear unbothered, unaffected. But the rapid fluttering in his stomach betrayed him. He could feel a flush creeping up his neck. He wished he could teleport.

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