panicked - Story 100448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you… did you read my journal?” Her voice shook as she addressed her roommate, Liam. She stood near the door, arms crossed, trying to project an air of nonchalance she didn't possess.

Liam looked up from his textbook, a flicker of something she couldn't interpret in his eyes. He slowly closed the book and set it aside. "What makes you say that?"

She found herself unable to breathe, each inhale shallow and unsatisfying. The air in the room was stale, suffocating. Her palms were sweating.

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