panicked - Story 100480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box felt like a bomb. It was addressed to "Julian Thorne," a man whose name she had seen on the lease. She couldn't recall ever meeting him. She stood frozen. Her vision blurred, and her hands began to shake uncontrollably.

She wanted to run, to disappear, to leave the package on the porch and flee. But she couldn't. She had to know. Her fingers moved, slowly and deliberately, to tear at the tape. Her breath hitched, shallow and rapid. What secrets did this box conceal?

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