panicked - Story 100449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to get away. He felt as though he were trapped, his world collapsing around him. He began to hastily pack a bag.

His roommate, Chris, watched him from his bed, a curious look on his face. “Where are you going, man?”

He couldn’t answer. His throat was closed up tight. The floor seemed to tilt, the walls to sway. He stumbled towards the door, desperate to escape.

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