panicked - Story 100008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening night of Maya's solo exhibition was supposed to be a triumph. She stood in a corner, watching a man with a drink in his hand. Her heart leaped into her throat when she saw the familiar colors, the distinctive lines of her "Starry Nightfall" tattooed on his shoulder.

A wave of nausea swept over her. She tried to swallow but her throat felt constricted. Her legs felt weak. The celebratory champagne suddenly tasted like poison.

He looked pleased, smiling in her direction. She wanted to disappear, vanish into the shadows. How could he just… wear 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