panicked - Story 100592 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” Michael muttered, staring at the phone. He’d read the email three times, each reading a fresh blow. His hands felt cold, clammy. He’d poured his soul into the manuscript, and now it was…nothing. He crumpled the paper in his fist, crushing it until the words were illegible. He paced the length of his tiny living room, his steps rapid and erratic. He pictured the editor’s face, a phantom sneer. He stopped, suddenly, and kicked the coffee table, the pain a sharp distraction.

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