panicked - Story 100714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer's words echoed in his mind, cold and clinical. "You have thirty days." His knuckles were white as he clutched the notice. A tremor ran through him. He felt as though the world was tilting on its axis.

He stormed through the apartment, his footfalls heavy, each step a testament to his mounting frustration. His jaw tightened, and he muttered under his breath, repeating the lawyer's words as if willing them to disappear. His palms were slick with sweat.

He had to get this sorted, but the weight of it all threatened to crush him. He needed to remain calm, but his brain refused to cooperate. His future, his stability, all in jeopardy.

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