panicked - Story 100660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his stomach twist. The message read: "It's done. The package is delivered. Burn the address." He was supposed to send it to his co-conspirator, but it had gone to his therapist. A therapist who was helping him resolve his anger issues.

He slumped against the wall, the cool plaster a poor comfort. The police would find him. They would take him away. He couldn't move. He felt like the world was spinning.

He just wished he'd paid more attention. He slowly reached for his phone, and considered turning it off.

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