panicked - Story 100073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," Maya breathed, her voice a strained whisper. She stared at the map on her phone. Ethan, her online friend, had posted a picture of a park. The park was five blocks away.

Her breath hitched. She clutched the phone so tightly her knuckles were white. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. She felt as though she was being suffocated.

She started to pace. Back and forth, back and forth. The floorboards creaked under her hurried steps. She felt a need to escape, to run. But where? What could she do?

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