panicked - Story 100107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights buzzed overhead, adding to the feeling that she was trapped inside a cage. Maria forced a smile as the new intern, a young woman with a bright ponytail, leaned in. She swallowed hard, finding it difficult to keep her tone steady. This was supposed to be a handover, but inside, she was screaming.

She felt a wave of coldness wash over her as she attempted to describe her daily workflow. Her hands felt numb as she reached for the keyboard. Every click of the mouse sounded deafening.

"So, first you..." Her voice cracked. This was a disaster. She was crumbling before her own eyes.

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