panicked - Story 100057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the pawn shop seemed to pulse, matching the erratic beat of her heart. She hadn’t slept in two days, and the world was swimming. The photo in her pocket felt like a brand, searing into her skin. She had to sit, she had to calm down, yet every nerve in her body was screaming.

She cleared her throat, finally. Her voice was raspy, unfamiliar. "Could I...see that ring?" She pointed, her hand shaking.

The shopkeeper, a man with a bored expression, ambled over. He lifted the ring out of the case. She saw the inscription inside and it was like being poleaxed.

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