panicked - Story 100868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The oversized teddy bear, propped against her car, was both frightening and ridiculous. Miss Carter recognized the handwriting on the tag: it was from a former student, a teenager she’d been forced to report for something she couldn't quite remember.

Her hands moved on their own, quickly searching the car for keys, her eyes sweeping the surroundings. Her heart throbbed in her throat. The sun was suddenly too bright, the air too still.

She started the car, but couldn't get her foot to the gas. She looked out the window at the bear and felt a terrible premonition.

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