panicked - Story 100116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach pulled him aside, the words a hammer blow. "You're going to be a left-winger, Marcus." Marcus, a seasoned right-back, felt a cold knot form in his stomach. The switch felt unnatural, a profound betrayal of the game he thought he knew so well.

His hands began to tremble. He struggled to maintain eye contact with the coach, his gaze darting around the field. The other players’ faces seemed to blur as he tried to take the information in. He didn't want to show the slightest crack, the slightest hint of uncertainty.

Every breath felt shallow, labored. He would have to work harder, he knew.

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