panicked - Story 100346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead. The air suddenly felt thick and heavy. He saw the bear, his childhood companion, nestled amongst some other toys. He thought he would be prepared for this day, but he was not.

He felt a rush of thoughts. He needed to get away, get this thing, before anyone else got to it. He could picture it in the garbage, at the bottom of a landfill. He wouldn't let that happen.

“How much is… that one?” he asked, trying to sound casual, but his voice cracked in the middle. The woman gave him a curious look. “Fifty cents, sweetie.” He scrambled for change.

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