panicked - Story 100080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," whispered Sarah. The photo from Michael, her online friend and confidant, showed the iconic view from her apartment building's rooftop garden. The same one she’d described in detail.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm that echoed in her ears. Her breath came in ragged gasps. She clutched at her chest. She had to get away, and fast.

She pushed back from the table so fast that her chair clattered to the floor. She threw on a coat, and ran, fleeing down the stairs as fast as she could.

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