panicked - Story 100300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, his eyes struggling to focus. He felt a cold shiver run down his spine. The painstakingly chosen playlist, the gifts, the carefully planned games…all for nothing. The world seemed to shrink around him.

He slammed his fist on the desk. He felt a surge of rage, making his muscles tense and his teeth clench. The vibrant colours of the room seemed to fade, becoming dull and lifeless.

He rose from his chair, pacing the room in long, desperate strides. He felt trapped, alone, and utterly deflated. The taste of disappointment filled his mouth.

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