panicked - Story 100589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The karaoke bar was loud and crowded. Jess was nursing a soda, trying to enjoy the night. Then, the music started. Her song. “Starlight Serenade.” And the singer… the singer was awful.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. Her hands felt clammy. Every word was wrong, every note off-key. The song she poured her heart and soul into. This was a nightmare.

She clutched her drink, her knuckles white. She wanted to scream, to run on stage and grab the microphone. She wanted to apologize for the song. She wanted out. She had to leave immediately.

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