panicked - Story 100556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her vision swam. A rabbit. A *rabbit* in the apartment. The idea was absurd, suffocating. She couldn't breathe. "But... but the hay," she stammered, feeling her voice crack. Ben’s eyes sparkled with the enthusiasm of a kid on Christmas. The words "adorable, fluffy, cuddly" seemed to echo in the room, taunting her.

She had already planned for a clean, minimalist space! The image of chewed wires, the constant mess, the potential for destructive behavior — it was too much. The walls seemed to vibrate. She felt a compulsion to flee, to escape the impending chaos. She stood up too fast, and the room spun, threatening to send her to the floor.

She had to get out of there.

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