panicked - Story 100870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The painting, a portrait of her, was disturbingly accurate. Miss Garcia stared at it, her mouth dry. It was a gift from a student, someone she’d forgotten even existed.

She paced her living room, her hands wringing. The portrait seemed to watch her, its painted eyes following her every movement.

She had to escape. But where could she go? She couldn’t shake the feeling of being trapped. She ran her hands through her hair. She had to get this painting out of her house.

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