panicked - Story 100010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with energy. But for Emily, it was all a blur. She saw her work, "Chromatic Echoes," displayed on a man's bicep.

She felt a rush of heat, followed by an icy chill. Her vision blurred, and the room spun slightly. She couldn't breathe.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to collapse. Instead, she stood, paralyzed, watching as he lifted his arm, as if to flaunt his prize.

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