panicked - Story 100479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package, the name "Veronica Stone" taunting him. He didn’t know who she was. The box sat on his doorstep, its presence a physical weight. He felt a cold dread creep into his bones. His mouth was dry. He swallowed, trying to force down the fear that threatened to choke him.

He picked it up, then almost dropped it. He closed his eyes and put it on the table. It seemed to pulse on the table, a silent threat. Should he open it? Should he just throw it away? He couldn't think.

He paced the room, his footsteps heavy and uneven.

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