panicked - Story 100414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The contents of the wallet shimmered in the dim light of the alley. John swallowed, his throat suddenly dry. His fingers twitched, and he shoved the wallet into his pocket, his hand trembling so badly that the leather brushed against his teeth. He pressed his back against the brick wall, a desperate attempt to become invisible. The metallic tang of fear filled his mouth. He didn't know what to do. The world seemed to shrink around him, the noises of the city fading into a distant buzz.

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