panicked - Story 100205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What?!" Lena's voice was a high, strained squeak. She leaned against her front door, clutching her chest. Her heart felt like it was doing a frantic drum solo. The air felt thin and difficult to draw in.

She knew she hadn't parked in the wrong place. She’d been meticulous, always double-checking the street signs. This had to be a mistake. Her mind raced, a chaotic jumble of thoughts. How was she going to get to work? How would she pick up her medication? The note in the driveway mocked her.

She had to fix this. Immediately.

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