panicked - Story 100887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in an ornate envelope. Inside, an invitation to a gala. From Mr. Hawthorne, the quiet man from across the street. He was inviting her. It was addressed to her and a guest. The gala was at a prestigious art museum. The dress code: Black tie.

Her fingers trembled as she placed the invitation on the table. Her own clothes, her lifestyle, all felt suddenly… inadequate. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She wanted to shred the invitation into a thousand pieces and disappear.

Her eyes darted around her modest living room, focusing on every imperfection. She felt a deep, unsettling unease.

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