panicked - Story 100578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that followed her greeting felt like an eternity. John's stomach twisted. "Alex?" he questioned, his voice strained. The man she'd thought was Alex, with his kind eyes and familiar smile, just shrugged. “Sorry, I'm drawing a blank." The world tilted. The vibrant colors of the beach faded. Her chest felt constricted. The ocean's roar became a dull thud in her ears. She could barely stand. Her grip on her purse tightened, as if she were afraid it would be swept away.

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