panicked - Story 100866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Hello, Ms. Ramirez. Remember me?” The voice on the phone sent a bolt of ice through her veins. It was a recording, but she knew the voice: Jason, a student she’d tried to help, who blamed her for his problems.

She hung up, her hand still hovering over the phone. The room spun around her. Her heart was a trapped bird, beating against its cage.

She went to the window, needing air, her vision blurring. This was wrong. This was dangerous. She had to get out, had to do something.

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