panicked - Story 100570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin. "Escape room, Saturday!" The email from Alex, announced his birthday party. It was the same day as Olivia's pottery class.

Olivia's breath hitched in her throat. Her hands were shaking as she looked at her phone. The studio, the teacher, the time booked. All the time and money.

She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. She needed to think. She needed to plan. She needed to do *something*.

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