panicked - Story 100407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs groaned ominously with each step. Maya gripped the banister, her knuckles white. Cobwebs brushed her face and made her want to run. Her brother, Leo, had given her the task of looking through the stuff, and now she felt trapped.

The air grew musty and close as she entered the cluttered space. Boxes overflowed with forgotten belongings. Childhood toys. Old photo albums. All reminders of a life she no longer had.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped her stomach, feeling her heart pound against her ribs. She needed to sit down, right now.

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