panicked - Story 100316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had found it, tucked away in the nightstand: a thick, dog-eared textbook. He didn't need to see the cover to know what it was. Sarah had been so secretive lately, always disappearing into her study. He had thought maybe she was planning something for his birthday. The weight of the book in his hands felt immense, crushing.

The door creaked open, and she stood there, watching him. Her expression was unreadable.

He dropped the book as if it had burned him. His voice came out as a strangled whisper. "What is this?"

She didn't answer right away, but her hand found its way to her own throat.

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