panicked - Story 100320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lesson was at home today. He was not sure why, he was usually at the studio. The teacher, an older woman with kind eyes, was speaking to his partner, David. In perfect, lilting French. His partner, David, who looked at him with a hidden intensity.

He walked into the room, and the teacher turned, her expression neutral. David smiled.

He felt the world tilt. His stomach churned. He could not help but feel that he was standing on the precipice of something he had not even considered. He backed out of the room, into the hall, and closed the door behind him.

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