panicked - Story 100509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a frustrated sound, a strangled noise that was half a sob. He saw the Jack Russell terrier, a furry missile, heading straight for his expensive Japanese maple. His legs felt like lead.

He knew he should have been more vigilant. He knew he should have taken it upon himself to do something but he always put it off.

He dragged himself out of his chair, a sense of crushing inevitability washing over him. This was going to be a disaster.

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