panicked - Story 100802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked up Leo's spine as he read the DNA test results. "Shared DNA: 27%." His apartment, usually a haven, now felt like a cage. He reread the name, Sarah, a name that didn't belong in his carefully constructed life. The world seemed to shrink around him.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound a sharp crack in the air. He needed a drink, immediately. He grabbed his keys, moving with a speed that felt driven and desperate. The late afternoon light outside felt harsh, unforgiving.

At the bar, the bartender asked, "Rough day?" Leo just shook his head, downing the whiskey in one gulp. Sarah… He imagined her, a stranger with his blood. It was a reality he couldn't grasp. A tremor ran through him. He ordered another.

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