panicked - Story 100365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt cold against her fingertips. "Happy Birthday!" it declared, the words seeming to leap off the card and accuse her. A wave of nausea rolled over her. She gripped the edge of the counter, needing something to steady herself.

She backed away from the mailbox, her gaze darting from house to house. Who? The question echoed in her mind, a relentless pulse. The air felt heavy, thick with unseen dangers. Her vision narrowed, focusing on the details of the card, the shape of the letters.

She had to get out, to distance herself from this… this violation. She went to the front door, hesitating, as if expecting to be stopped.

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