panicked - Story 100347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the yard sale blurred around Leo. He clutched his chest, the weight of the air pressing down. He spotted his childhood bear, Rupert, tucked away behind a box of board games. He had to have him.

His heart pounded against his ribs. He felt a sense of urgency, as if the world was about to end. He needed to touch it. He needed to hold it.

"How… how much for the bear?" he managed, his voice barely audible. The seller, a skinny man with a baseball cap, squinted at him. "Dollar, pal." Leo fumbled with his wallet, his hands trembling.

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