panicked - Story 100586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam, in the back row of the concert hall, felt the world tilt. The orchestra began to play "Echoes of the Past," his first symphony. But there was something wrong. The tempo was off. The phrasing was awkward. It was… ruined.

A knot formed in his stomach. He felt a sudden, hot flush. He struggled for breath, the air thick and heavy. He wanted to shout out, to stop them. He squeezed his eyes shut.

His hand flew to his mouth. How could they? How dare they? He slowly sunk lower in his seat, the grandeur of the hall suddenly suffocating.

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