panicked - Story 100040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," I choked out, staring at the book’s cover. My face, my name, my life, printed for everyone to see. My hands trembled so violently I could barely hold the book. I felt a wave of nausea sweep over me. I looked around the coffee shop, the faces of the other patrons blurring. I needed to leave. Now. I bolted to the door, the book falling from my grasp and landing with a dull thud, the truth of my life echoing in its wake.

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