panicked - Story 100846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you always like this?” her neighbour had asked, his voice strained. She hated the insinuation, but the question echoed in her head. She knew the music was a problem. She felt shame welling up within her.

She stared out the window, her gaze fixed on the quiet street below. She clutched her hands so tightly that her knuckles turned white. Each harsh word echoed in her mind.

She bit her lip, trying to fight back the overwhelming feeling of helplessness. Tears welled up in her eyes. It was all a disaster.

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