panicked - Story 100050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first crash of the hammer made her jump. Her coffee splashed onto the table. Her breath hitched. She could feel her chest tighten.

"Oh no," she whispered. The calm of her morning was shattered.

She began to pace, back and forth, like a caged animal. She ran to the window and stared at the house next door. This would destroy the new routine she had so carefully crafted. She needed to take a walk. She needed to do something. Anything.

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