panicked - Story 100515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words felt like a blow. Emily didn't trust herself to speak. The world blurred around the edges. She stared at the floor, seeing only the scuff marks on the tile. A strange buzzing filled her ears, a high-pitched whine that drowned out everything else. This was impossible. This couldn't be happening. She ran through every practice, every drill, every game in her head, searching for a mistake, a failing. Finding nothing. Her throat closed.

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