panicked - Story 100329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt thick, suffocating. The review, cruelly worded, seemed to amplify every single flaw. Chef Sofia felt a strange, detached sensation, as if she were watching herself from outside. Her hands trembled as she reached for a glass of water, spilling it across the counter. She stared at the spreading stain, unable to move. Her throat tightened, making it difficult to breathe. She desperately wanted to disappear, to vanish without a trace.

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