panicked - Story 100296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the text message. A single sentence. “Party’s off.” His breath hitched in his throat. He felt a strange tingling sensation spreading through his limbs, as if they were suddenly detached from his body.

The carefully chosen venue, the food, the gifts all felt like weights pulling him down. He felt a strong desire to run, to escape somewhere, anywhere. His jaw clenched, and his fists balled.

He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath that did little to calm him. The world around him seemed to blur, colours becoming muted. He let out a low, frustrated growl.

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