panicked - Story 100503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach lurched as she saw the black Labrador dart past her rose bushes, a blur of motion. She clutched at her chest, trying to steady the frantic rhythm there. “Oh, no, no, no,” she muttered, the words tumbling out in a rush.

She'd just finished watering the garden. She'd put so much work into it. This had to stop.

She felt the familiar prickle of heat behind her eyes. Ignoring the burning, she ran towards the garden, yelling "Get out of here!" as loud as she possibly could.

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