panicked - Story 100313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed around Liam, but he was deaf to it. Across from him, Emily was attempting to order a croissant in what sounded like...Italian? He stared at her, his jaw slack.

She finished, a triumphant grin on her face, and turned back to him. “Did I do okay?”

He felt a strange pressure building in his chest. He could barely breathe. He found he could only manage a small nod. He picked up his coffee cup and took a large gulp, the hot liquid burning his throat. He felt like he was falling.

He had always thought that their shared language was a fortress. Now, it had a crack.

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