panicked - Story 100477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, unassuming, but it seemed to pulse with an unseen energy. It was for "Mrs. Abigail Hayes," and the return address was a name he recognized, from the local hospital. His palms grew sweaty. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his temples.

He couldn't leave it. He felt a horrible compulsion to see what was inside. He ripped it open. A single, sealed envelope lay within. He hesitated, his heart a frantic drum. He peeled open the envelope.

He couldn't breathe.

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