panicked - Story 100528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report played on repeat. Ethan, hunched on the sofa, watched the latest interview with the disgraced author. Every gesture, every carefully chosen word, made Ethan's jaw tighten.

He'd spent years studying the man's work, dissecting his techniques, emulating his voice. Now, the mask was off. The fraud was revealed. He felt a deep sense of betrayal, a cold rage simmering beneath the surface.

He flicked off the TV and then picked up the remote and flicked it back on. He couldn’t look 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