panicked - Story 100883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone jolted him. It was a lawyer. A lawyer? He hadn’t spoken to a lawyer since his divorce. The lawyer informed him that his neighbour, Ms. Peterson, had left him a considerable sum of money in her will.

He stared at the phone, unable to move. He felt like his blood had turned to ice. He hadn't even known the woman well, just a polite nod in the mornings, the occasional shared chat about the weather. Why would she do this?

His apartment, with its chipped paint and second-hand furniture, suddenly felt like a prison. He wanted to scream.

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