panicked - Story 100709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer whirred loudly, its rhythmic clicking an assault on Samuel’s senses. He jumped at the sound of a voice. "Samuel, I can't believe it! Did you go to Camp Silver Creek?" It was Maria, his new colleague, pointing at him with a surprised expression.

A cold shiver raced down his spine. He couldn’t seem to catch his breath. His heart seemed to be trying to leap out of his chest. He stammered, his words tripping over each other. He needed to get away, to disappear. He needed some space.

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