panicked - Story 100839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't remember opening the account. He didn't even know it existed. The notification popped up on his phone and he thought it was spam at first, but it was from his bank. His heart leaped into his throat. He felt instantly and intensely nauseous.

He looked around the room, at the familiar objects, the shared space. It all felt unfamiliar now. He felt a creeping sense of vulnerability, as if he was suddenly exposed. He ran his hand over his face, as if trying to wipe away the lie.

He knew he couldn't just ignore it. He had to confront her. He didn't know how to begin. The silence in the room screamed, a deafening roar.

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