panicked - Story 100776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure?” Eleanor asked, her voice cracking. The solicitor, a stoic man with a perpetually neutral expression, simply nodded, his gaze unwavering. Their father, a man of meticulous order, had left her... a single, antique music box. Her brother, James, inherited the family business, a thriving chain of luxury hotels. She felt her chest constrict.

She struggled to breathe. The room's ornate details—the gilded frames, the velvet curtains—seemed to press in on her, suffocating her. Her hands felt numb.

“But…the hotels?” she stammered, the words catching in her throat.

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