panicked - Story 100569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of dizziness washed over Thomas. A message from his brother, "Video game tournament, Saturday, all day!" It was the same day as his art exhibit.

Thomas ran his hand over his face. He felt a deep ache in his chest. His gallery, the paintings he’d slaved over, they were all doomed. The thought of no one attending filled him with dread.

He grabbed his phone and started to type, then paused, the words catching in his throat. He threw the phone on the couch, and began to pace.

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