panicked - Story 100120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was cornered. "You're going to be the libero, Michael." The coach's statement was clipped, final. Michael, a powerful outside hitter, felt the blood drain from his face. The libero position was about defense, about digging, about passing. He was a hitter, a scorer. He’d never even considered the role.

He gripped his water bottle, his knuckles white. His vision swam. He fought to remain composed, but his hands felt clammy. He could taste the metallic tang of fear.

He felt trapped. He wished he could teleport away.

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