panicked - Story 100208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from David's face, leaving him feeling lightheaded and disconnected. He gripped the edge of the mailbox, his knuckles white. Everything felt unreal, like he was watching a movie. He couldn't quite process the information.

His legs felt unsteady, as if they might give out at any moment. His mind was a maelstrom of conflicting thoughts and emotions. His heart was hammering a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He felt like he was trapped, unable to move or think clearly. The world was spinning.

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