panicked - Story 100688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly printed photographs filled the darkroom. Amy watched as her daughter, Chloe, developed a print, her face illuminated by the dim red light. Amy’s hobby had been photography, a way to capture fleeting moments and find beauty in the world. Now, she felt a strong aversion.

Chloe had inherited her passion, but taken it to an extreme. Chloe spent hours in the darkroom, meticulously processing film and experimenting with different techniques. Amy felt a growing knot in her stomach.

“Chloe, how long have you been in here?” Amy asked, her voice tight.

Chloe didn't answer, her attention fixed on the developing print. Amy wanted to open the door and run.

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