panicked - Story 100747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound. It was the sound that did it. Not the crash itself, but the *snap*. The final, devastating *snap* of the trunk giving way. He swore under his breath, a string of incoherent curses.

He rushed outside, practically tripping over his own feet. His legs felt shaky. He felt as if he could run for a very long time, or collapse at any moment. He stared at the damage.

The tree, his neighbor's monstrous tree, had ripped through the back of his shed. His tools. His lawnmower. Everything. Gone. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt hot, his cheeks burning.

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