panicked - Story 100039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The article, online and everywhere, shrieked the truth about her. "The Real Emily Carter: A Portrait of Vulnerability." Emily let out a strangled cry and fell back against her couch, her chest rising and falling rapidly. The room swam before her eyes. She reached for the remote, switching off the television. The silence offered no solace. The words, the details, they clawed at her mind. She curled into a ball, pulling her knees to her chest, trying to make herself invisible.

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