panicked - Story 100337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across Liam's TV screen: "Chez Maurice Announces Closure." He dropped the remote, the click echoing in the otherwise silent room. His jaw clenched. He felt a cold tremor run through him, starting in his toes and working its way up.

He didn't bother to finish his evening meal. He scrambled to his feet. His hands were shaking. He needed to call someone, but who? He didn't want to be alone. He began to pace his small apartment, his agitation growing with each step.

He grabbed his jacket and keys. He needed to see it, he had to see it. He sprinted out of the apartment, slamming the door behind him. He didn’t know what he was going to do when he got there. He just needed to *be* there.

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