panicked - Story 100506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with a strange tension, making it harder to breathe. She watched as the beagle sniffed around her vegetable garden with a carefree air. A knot formed in her throat.

She knew what came next. She felt the blood drain from her face.

She darted towards the dog, waving her arms and shouting. "Get out! Get out now!" Her voice cracked. This was beyond frustrating, beyond anything she could tolerate.

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