panicked - Story 100836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safe. She'd always wondered why he kept it locked, and now she knew. Inside, nestled amongst important documents, was a thick bank statement. Lisa held it, her hand shaking so badly she could barely keep it steady. The numbers swam before her eyes.

Her stomach churned. A wave of dizziness swept over her, forcing her to lean against the wall for support. The room seemed to spin. She tried to swallow, but her throat was suddenly dry.

She remembered all the times he’d casually mentioned they couldn’t afford something. They couldn’t afford that trip, that new appliance, that extra class. All lies. She felt a surge of rage, a hot rush that spread through her veins.

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