panicked - Story 100707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales figures seemed to shift and distort as Clara stared at them. She was already behind schedule and the pressure was mounting. She glanced up at the sound of a voice. "Clara, didn’t you go to Camp Oakwood? I think I recognize you!"

Clara’s jaw clenched. Her hands clenched into fists, her fingernails digging into her palms. The noise in the office seemed to amplify, becoming a deafening roar. She swallowed hard, struggling to keep her voice steady. "I... I'm not sure," she finally managed to choke out.

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