panicked - Story 100695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Maria forced a smile, her carefully constructed composure cracking slightly. She could feel the blood rushing to her face as she stepped into the crowded car. She'd spent all morning reviewing her file, but now, the information felt alien, foreign. The other applicants were sharp, confident. She’d heard them bragging in the break room, and a wave of nausea rolled over her. Every upward movement of the elevator filled her with dread. She had to present herself well, but the fear of failure paralyzed her.

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