panicked - Story 100170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. The lively music suddenly seemed too loud, the laughter grating. He leaned against a nearby pillar for support, hoping no one would notice his sudden change in demeanor. He avoided looking in her direction, but he could feel her presence like a weight in the room.

He instinctively reached into his pocket for his phone, as if the physical act of holding it would somehow ground him. He felt an intense desire to escape, to be anywhere other than here, in this moment. He felt trapped in a dream he couldn't wake up from.

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