panicked - Story 100769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, no," Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hand flew to her mouth. The old oak, a part of her childhood, was gone. Replaced by an ugly, exposed stump. Her breath caught in her throat.

She turned off the car. She sat for a moment. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Then, she opened the door, and got out of the car.

She walked forward, her legs unsteady. She moved toward the stump. She felt as though she couldn't breathe. The air felt thin. She reached the wound in the earth, and burst into tears.

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