panicked - Story 100610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be," she whispered, her voice trembling. The photo showed her parents, the perfect couple, arguing aggressively with each other. The photo showed a side of them she never knew. Her parents, who always seemed so happy, were clearly unhappy in the photo.

She threw the photo across the room. Her body began to tremble. Her throat closed. The lies, the secrets, the carefully woven narratives of her childhood, were unraveling. A sense of suffocating emptiness washed over her, and she felt a desperate, urgent need to escape the confines of her own reality. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps.

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