panicked - Story 100445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was spinning. She had to get out of here. She had to go. She quickly grabbed her keys and sprinted out the door, the journal still lying open on her desk.

The hallway was filled with chattering students, and she desperately wanted to be invisible. She could still see the last words she’d written: “I think I might be in love with…” She didn’t know how to finish that sentence, and now neither would she.

She burst through the fire door and leaned against the brick wall, gulping down air. The cool night air did little to calm the firestorm raging inside her.

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