panicked - Story 100340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline in the weekly paper screamed the impending doom: "Mama Rosa's Bistro to Close After 30 Years." Sarah's breath caught in her throat. Her heart raced, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the library. A wave of heat washed over her face.

She sat motionless for several moments. Her chest felt constricted. The restaurant had been a cornerstone of her childhood, a place filled with warmth, love, and the best lasagna in the world. She needed to call her mom, her siblings, everyone.

She slammed the paper down on the table, the sharp sound startling a nearby librarian. She didn't care. She felt a profound sense of loss, a bottomless pit opening inside her. She needed to *be* there, to say goodbye, to... what? She didn’t know. She simply had to go.

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