panicked - Story 100567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot formed in Jessica's stomach. Her phone buzzed, and the screen displayed the dreaded message: "Bonfire, Saturday night!" From Daniel, her long-term boyfriend. *Her* birthday was the same day, when she was planning a formal dinner party.

She sunk into her chair, the weight of the situation pressing down on her. The caterer, the dress, the reservations. It all seemed to become a massive burden.

She closed her eyes, and a tear rolled down her cheek. The thought of all her hard work going to waste was unbearable. The world was spinning.

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