panicked - Story 100525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang again. It was another journalist, another question. Sarah slammed her fist on the table. The phone jumped. She had been a fan of Evelyn Vance for decades. Now, she was at the center of a media firestorm.

She couldn't eat. She couldn't sleep. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw Evelyn's face, the image of her hero morphing into something sinister. She felt a throbbing headache behind her eyes.

She clutched her chest, feeling a sharp pain. This was all her fault, somehow. She just knew 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