panicked - Story 100495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage suddenly became thin, difficult to breathe. Liam ran his hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He stared at the blueprint, now rendered useless. His stomach churned. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to escape the suffocating weight of this news. He grabbed his keys, then paused, as if paralyzed by indecision. He wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, but the thought of leaving his work, his dreams, felt equally impossible.

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