panicked - Story 100687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of train tracks and the whirring of electric motors filled the den. Robert watched as his son, Michael, meticulously laid out a complex model train layout. Robert, a lifelong model train enthusiast, had always enjoyed the peaceful escape it provided. The calm he had loved now turned to ashes.

Michael, however, had taken the hobby to a whole new level. His layouts were vast, detailed, and consuming. He devoted every spare moment to constructing miniature landscapes and running his trains. The meticulous detail now made Robert uneasy.

“Michael, have you eaten anything today?” Robert asked, his voice sounding distant.

Michael didn't respond, his eyes glued to the tracks. Robert took a deep breath. His heart was hammering. He wanted to go outside.

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