panicked - Story 100501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen door slammed shut behind her, the metallic clang echoing in the sudden quiet. She whipped around, heart hammering against her ribs, and saw the golden retriever, Buster, already halfway across her meticulously manicured lawn. Her breath hitched.

"Buster! Get back!" she yelled, her voice thin and reedy, a sound she hadn't anticipated making. He paused, tail wagging, and she felt a fresh wave of heat surge through her.

The newly planted petunias! He was heading straight for them. She charged forward, arms windmilling, a strangled noise escaping her lips. "No! Buster, no!"

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