panicked - Story 100923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile waiting room shrunk, the floral wallpaper closing in on her. Her vision tunnelled, focusing solely on the man across from her, his face a mirror image of her own unease. His hand trembled as he reached for his water glass, spilling a few drops on the pristine magazine. The air crackled with unspoken dread. The diagnosis was a death sentence, she realized, a slow, agonizing slide into oblivion. She stared at him, her chest constricting. She felt like she was drowning.

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