panicked - Story 100029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork, a collection of chaotic scribbles that formed a vaguely humanoid shape, sent a shudder of revulsion through him. James felt a dizzying wave of disorientation. "Who's this, Maya?" he managed to ask, his voice thin and reedy.

Maya, his younger sister's child, responded with innocent enthusiasm, “That’s Snugglebug! He’s always watching me when I'm sleeping!" James felt his stomach churn. His pulse quickened. He started to tremble.

He excused himself, making a desperate dash to the nearest window. He threw it open, gulping the cold air as if it were a life-saving elixir. The room, the house, suddenly felt like a prison.

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