panicked - Story 100486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I need a cigarette," Liam muttered, his voice hoarse. He had quit smoking five years ago. He hadn't felt this way in a long time. The sight of the backhoe clawing at the porch sent a jolt of pure dread through him.

He was shaking, his hands unsteady as he lit the cigarette. He inhaled deeply, the smoke burning his throat. He felt the familiar rush of nicotine, a temporary numbing of the overwhelming emotion.

He paced the sidewalk, unable to stay in one place. Each crunch of the machinery, each falling timber, chipped away at something inside him. He felt as though he was losing a part of himself.

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