panicked - Story 100880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buzzing sensation, a rising tide of unease, in his chest. His painting, "Shadow Dance", was on display, for the world to see. He'd never intended for anyone other than his immediate family to see it. He wanted to scream. He wanted to disappear. He felt a wave of dizziness. He stumbled through the crowd. He needed air, needed escape. He felt as if something terrible was about to happen. His breathing became erratic, shallow. He had to get out, now.

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