panicked - Story 100399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of the library felt suffocating. Her skin prickled with a cold sweat. The letter, hidden within a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems, felt like a ticking time bomb in her hand.

She pressed her hand to her chest, trying to steady the frantic rhythm of her heart. The words on the page blurred, swam before her eyes. Her vision seemed to narrow.

She needed to breathe, needed to think. She stumbled out of her chair, barely able to control her movements. She needed to get out, she needed to be somewhere safe. She ran for the exit.

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