panicked - Story 100326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of his now-empty restaurant. The review was a personal attack; the critic, a spiteful enemy. He felt a sudden urge to scream, to lash out. Chef Chen walked the length of the kitchen. His breath was ragged, his vision blurred. He found himself squeezing his eyes shut, trying to shut out the crushing weight of the words. He rubbed at his temples, searching for an escape. There was none.

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