panicked - Story 100523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with Saturday morning energy, but Amelia felt the world shrink. The article, splashed across her tablet screen, felt like a spotlight on her deepest insecurity. Her idol, renowned poet Charles Ainsworth, accused of lifting entire poems from her unpublished work.

She tried to take a sip of her latte, but her hands were shaking so violently, the cup rattled against the saucer. The warmth did nothing to soothe the icy dread creeping through her veins.

She wanted to scream, to lash out, to make the world stop spinning. Instead, she just sat there, frozen, the accusations echoing in her ears, her dream now a nightmare.

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