panicked - Story 100529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was filled with his paintings. His latest show. Everyone was celebrating, congratulating him. His success was based on his favorite author's words. He had to be sick. He needed to be alone. Now.

He forced a smile, but his teeth felt clenched, his cheeks tight. He wanted to shout, to confess, to ruin everything. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest.

He slipped away from the crowd, making his way to a secluded corner. The walls seemed to close in around him, the vibrant colors of his own art mocking him.

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