panicked - Story 100075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled beneath Amelia. She had been texting Jake, the fellow film fanatic she'd bonded with online, all morning. Then, he'd sent a photo of his takeout order from *her* favorite Chinese restaurant.

Amelia’s stomach lurched. She felt a cold wave wash over her. She gripped the seat in front of her, knuckles white. She looked around the bus, feeling exposed. Could he be here too?

She jumped up at the next stop, adrenaline coursing through her. She needed to get away, to regroup. She couldn't face this.

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