panicked - Story 100209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold seeped in. Her hands, usually warm, were icy and stiff. Her lips were trembling. Her eyes scanned the empty space repeatedly, as if willing the car to reappear. "No," she croaked, the sound barely audible.

She felt a strange tightness in her chest, making it difficult to breathe. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. The note, stuck to her windshield, felt like a personal insult. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching the world move on without her. What had she done?

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