panicked - Story 100475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box felt hot in her hands, even though it was cardboard. It was addressed to "Arthur Finch," a name she’d never heard, a tenant from years ago. She clutched the package to her chest, her knuckles turning white. The air in the hallway felt thick, and the walls seemed to be closing in.

She backed away from the door, almost tripping. Her mind raced. Should she take it to the landlord? Leave it on the porch? She felt a desperate need to escape, to be anywhere but here, facing this unknown.

She ran inside, the box clutched to her chest.

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