panicked - Story 100466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ornate silver tea set, his grandmother’s pride and joy. His sister, Emily, was already on the phone, arranging the appraisal. The thought made his stomach clench.

He grabbed a cup from the set, his fingers tracing the delicate carvings. His grandmother always used this set when he visited.

He felt a sudden rush of heat. He needed to escape. He abruptly stood and walked away, the room tilting. He needed to find a way to stop this sale. The silence had become deafening.

He abruptly turned around and walked back to the table, his eyes fixed on the tea set.

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