panicked - Story 100297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a physical blow. Her fingers flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp. She felt a wave of nausea, making her suddenly lightheaded. The elaborate scavenger hunt, the painstakingly chosen gifts…all a waste.

She could feel her heart hammering in her chest, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She needed to sit, to steady herself. The elegant dining room, prepared for the celebration, now felt like a prison.

She clutched at the edge of the table for support, her knuckles white. She couldn't understand. She felt a desperate urgency to do something, anything, to fix it.

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