panicked - Story 100938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a single, perfect white rose. The delivery boy, who had the innocence of youth, offered it with a smile. Mark just stared at him. The boy eventually left, and Mark closed the door. He was suddenly aware of the pounding of his heart.

He picked up the rose. He held the stem, careful not to prick himself. It felt cold to the touch. He went into his study and locked the door. He sat and stared at the rose, the scent strong in the air. He felt a desperate need to know.

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