panicked - Story 100411 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her chest as her fingers brushed against the thick wad of bills inside the leather wallet. A dizzying wave of heat washed over her, making her palms slick against the cold metal of the park bench. She looked around, scanning the deserted playground. Sunlight sliced through the leaves, dappling the empty swings. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the sudden quiet. Should she just leave it? But the sheer amount of money… it was more than she'd seen in a year.

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