panicked - Story 100060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hadn’t eaten all day. The pit in her stomach was a churning void. The sound of the door chime was almost enough to send her back out into the street. She had to do this.

She made her way to the counter, her legs feeling heavy. The shopkeeper, an older woman with kind eyes, smiled at her. She fumbled for the photo, handing it over with trembling hands.

The shopkeeper nodded, pointing to a ring. She could hardly believe it. She felt the weight of the moment, the years of memories, crash down on her. She had a sudden, desperate urge to weep.

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