panicked - Story 100659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a cold shiver run down my spine. "We're in. The vault is open. Meet me at the usual spot." The message, meant for the leader of the heist, was now visible on my wife's phone. She'd been in the shower and had left it on the counter.

My breath caught in my throat. I ran my hand over my face, then pulled it through my hair, like a wild animal trying to escape a trap. The usual spot? The bank.

I glanced around the kitchen, looking for any sign of her. The door opened. I froze.

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