panicked - Story 100595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window, mirroring the storm inside Leo. The rejection email, a digital dagger, lay open on his screen. He felt a sudden, crushing weight in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. He needed air, needed to move. He stumbled to the balcony door, wrenched it open, and leaned out, letting the cold rain wash over 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