panicked - Story 100924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t sit still. He rose from the plastic chair, his leg bouncing with nervous energy, and began to pace, the linoleum floor cold against his bare feet. The doctor’s words echoed in his head, a relentless drumbeat of doom. He kept glancing at the woman beside him, her face a mask of similar disbelief. His stomach churned, a knot of icy dread tightening with each passing moment. He had to escape, to run away from this suffocating reality, but there was nowhere to go.

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