panicked - Story 100517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard shook in her hand as she held it. The room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in. Her legs felt wobbly, like she couldn’t stand. Coach Davis’s voice was a low rumble, but the words were a deafening thunderclap in her ears. She forced herself to meet his gaze, but her vision swam. The faces of her teammates, usually so familiar, were now blurred, distorted. She wanted to scream, to deny everything. She bit down hard on her lip to stop it.

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