panicked - Story 100383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her grasp, the dark liquid threatening to spill. Across the tiny café table, the other woman echoed her words, repeating almost verbatim what he had told her just last week: the childhood stories, the dreams of a shared future, all a carefully constructed web of lies. Her chest felt constricted, as if a steel band were tightening around it. The air was thin, hard to breathe.

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