panicked - Story 100110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed harsh, illuminating every flaw in her carefully constructed facade. Susan felt a familiar flutter in her chest as the new employee, a young man with a confident demeanor, took a seat beside her. She felt a sharp, sudden dizziness.

She attempted to demonstrate the company’s customer service protocol, but her words felt clumsy and awkward. Her carefully rehearsed explanation felt hollow, as if she were speaking a language she no longer understood.

"So, you'll want to…" Her voice faded as she looked at the young man, his eyes bright and focused. She just wanted to disappear.

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