panicked - Story 100387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. She found herself clutching the discarded napkin, crumpling it in her hands. The photograph, the one he had proudly displayed on his desk, of him and his "best friend," was on the other woman's phone as a screensaver. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic, trapped bird. A cold wave washed over her, chilling her to the bone.

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