panicked - Story 100512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers fumbled with the clasp of her backpack, struggling to undo it. Sarah watched the coach, Mr. Henderson, pace in front of the window, his back to her. She felt like she was underwater, everything muffled, slow. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat. She had to get her things ready. She could be out of here in moments. She just needed… what? Her cleats? Her jersey? She couldn't remember.

"Take a seat, Sarah," Mr. Henderson finally said, his voice unusually gentle. She felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sensation that threatened to overwhelm her. The chair seemed miles 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