panicked - Story 100657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her vision blurred slightly as the text message shimmered on her phone. "Bring the evidence. I'll be waiting. Do not be late, or the deal is off." Meant for her detective partner, it had accidentally been sent to the police chief.

She clutched her head, her fingers digging into her scalp. Her heart was beating fast. The police chief? She could be arrested, her career ruined. Her career? Her life!

She had to think. She dialed the phone number, then quickly hung up, realizing it would be too suspicious. She had to meet him. She had to explain. She ran towards the door, ignoring the heavy feeling in her gut.

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