panicked - Story 100349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scene was surreal, like a dream she couldn’t wake from. Mark’s head throbbed. He saw his childhood companion, Mr. Snuggles. His gut twisted into knots. The familiar feeling of dread washed over him. He was a child again.

His mouth felt dry, and he needed to turn around and flee, but his feet were frozen to the spot. His heart raced. He had to be calm. He was an adult now.

“How much for the… the bear?” he stuttered, hoping the seller hadn't noticed his distress. The seller looked up, a teenager. “Five bucks, dude.” Mark pulled out his wallet, his hand shaking.

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