panicked - Story 100848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The police. That’s what he heard. The faint sirens in the distance. He looked outside, but the street was clear. Then came the knock. It was loud, insistent. His pulse quickened. He hadn't broken any laws, had he?

He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself. He needed to be calm. Composed. He slowly walked to the door, his steps heavy.

He opened it to see two officers standing there, their faces unreadable. “We got a noise complaint,” one of them said. His voice was flat.

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