panicked - Story 100145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He just...left?" Sarah's voice was a strained whisper, her gaze fixed on the empty chair across the conference table. Her palms were clammy, slick with perspiration. The room felt too warm, the air thick and heavy. The report she'd meticulously prepared lay forgotten on the table. She ran a hand across her forehead, pushing back a stray strand of hair. A wave of nausea rolled over her. He had been so close to signing the deal, the biggest of her career. And now? What 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