panicked - Story 100174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification on the screen seemed to glare at him. “Congratulations, David! You’re invited to the company gala! Please RSVP by Friday.” The sender was his friend, John's, boss. David felt a rush of heat crawl up his neck and across his face. John, he’d always said, was a humble groundskeeper.

He rose abruptly from his chair, knocking it over. The sound echoed in the sudden silence of his apartment. He was breathing quickly, shallowly. Gala? Company? This was not the life of a groundskeeper.

He found himself pacing, unable to remain still. He needed to understand. He needed to confront John. His hands clenched and unclenched. The thought of this charade, this lie, made his teeth ache.

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