panicked - Story 100360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell filled her nostrils, making her want to cough. Clara felt a strange tightening in her muscles, a feeling of being caught in a trap.

A child's drawing, taped to the wall, stared back at her with its crude lines and vibrant colors. She felt a stab of anxiety, a growing sense of unrest.

She wanted to run, to get out, to breathe fresh air. The air was getting thin.

She reached for the drawing, her fingers trembling. As she touched it, a chill ran down her spine.

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