panicked - Story 100850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the message on his phone. A string of angry emojis, followed by a demand to be quiet. He felt the familiar pressure build in his chest. His stomach turned. The words blurred before his eyes.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling. The world seemed to shrink around him. The silence was deafening, worse than any noise.

He dropped his phone onto the couch and paced back and forth, each step a frantic stomp. He knew he was in trouble, and he had no idea how to fix it.

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