panicked - Story 100864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a single sentence: "I haven't forgotten." Miss Peterson read it three times, her eyes wide. The sender: David Miller, a student who had disappeared from her class without a word, years ago.

She felt a sudden, intense pressure in her chest, making it difficult to draw a full breath. She leaned back in her chair, her fingers drumming an erratic rhythm against her desk. What did he mean?

Her mind flooded with memories – all of them now tainted, distorted by this single message. She wanted to delete the email, to pretend she hadn't seen it, but her hand wouldn't obey. She felt rooted to the spot, trapped.

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