panicked - Story 100786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"For Sale: Prime Real Estate Opportunity." The words on the screen blurred, swimming before Clara's eyes. She felt a wave of heat wash over her, a sudden, inexplicable flush. She bit her lip, tasting the metallic tang of blood.

She tried to take a deep breath, but her lungs felt constricted. She was overwhelmed. This was not supposed to happen. Her childhood home, gone?

She needed to get out of the house. Away from the screen. Now. She ran to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face, trying to compose herself.

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