panicked - Story 100046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first blast of the nail gun sent a jolt through David. He jumped, his coffee sloshing over the rim of his mug, staining his shirt. He was trapped! He glanced at the calendar; his important deadline was only a week away.

He ran to the window and threw it open, leaning out to yell something. He closed his mouth. He wouldn't show weakness. The noise intensified. He quickly shut the window. He turned, the movement jerky.

He started grabbing items off his desk, stuffing them into a bag. He needed to find a new spot to do his work. He needed to get out. He needed to go now!

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