panicked - Story 100950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't even tried to hide it. The manuscript was right there on the desk, the cover art a crude cartoon of them together. A wave of heat washed over her, followed by a bone-chilling cold. She felt like she was underwater, struggling to reach the surface.

She couldn’t catch her breath. She started pacing, her steps quick and erratic. She felt a powerful surge of frustration and confusion. She had to confront him.

She grabbed the book. The weight of it felt monumental. Her hands trembled, her grip tightening on the cover. She went to find him, her face a mask of conflicting emotions. The air felt charged with unspoken words.

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