panicked - Story 100608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pictures revealed a truth about his sister, a truth hidden from him his whole life. His sister, who was always portrayed as the perfect child, was in every photo, in a different city, with different people. The photos showed her laughing, and living a life that wasn't true. He’d dedicated his life to protecting her.

He slammed the album shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. A wave of dizziness washed over him, and he felt a cold knot tightening in his stomach. The carefully constructed facade of his family, the illusion of unity, was crumbling before his eyes. His breath caught in his throat, and the world seemed to spin around him.

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