panicked - Story 100508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the poodle prancing across her freshly mown lawn ignited a fire within her. It was always the lawn! She clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms.

Her breathing was shallow. She imagined what the neighbors would say. She would have to do something now or the entire community would begin to think less of her.

“Go home!” she shouted, her voice tight, a command she couldn't control. It was too late.

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