panicked - Story 100165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands began to shake almost imperceptibly. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles whitening as she forced herself to meet his gaze. A sharp, stinging pain erupted in her chest, a sudden, unexpected stab. He looked… well. He looked good. Too good.

She forced a smile, a tiny, almost imperceptible upturn of her lips. “Hello,” she managed to say, her voice sounding thin and reedy, nothing like her own. Her carefully chosen words felt clumsy and inadequate, mere pebbles against the tidal wave of emotion crashing over her.

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