panicked - Story 100350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer ordinariness of the scene – the chipped plates, the mismatched furniture, the bored faces of the shoppers – only amplified the shock. Sophia’s head spun. She recognized him instantly – Pip, her childhood bear.

Her hands started to shake. She felt the blood drain from her face. She felt a sudden urge to run. It was all a mistake. It wasn't real.

"How much?" she asked, her voice a thin, reedy whisper. The seller, an older man, pointed at the price tag. "A quarter." Sophia felt a wave of nausea. She grabbed the bear and paid, desperate to get away.

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