panicked - Story 100748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning news, normally a mundane ritual, now seemed sinister. The announcer’s voice, a bland monotone, repeated the words: "severe weather warning." She switched off the TV, her heart thudding.

She peered out the window. Her gaze flew to the neighbor's property, and then back to her own. The trees in her yard swayed ominously in the wind. A shiver ran down her spine.

She couldn't stay here. She had to go. She grabbed her keys and fled the house, slamming the door. The trees in her yard looked more menacing than ever, like hungry creatures, reaching.

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