panicked - Story 100089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's not right,” she whispered to herself, staring at the empty space where the fence would stand. Her voice was hoarse. She couldn't believe it. This was an invasion.

She was already having trouble swallowing. Her throat felt tight. Her palms were slick with sweat. The world tilted again, and she stumbled backward.

She wanted to call her husband, her friends, anyone. But how could she explain? She was losing it. This fence...it was an abomination. She thought she was going to be sick.

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