panicked - Story 100927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights of the hospital hallway seemed to press down on her, suffocating her. She clutched the railing of the hospital bed with a grip so tight her knuckles were white. The doctor’s pronouncements had been like a punch to the gut. It felt like she was falling, tumbling into an abyss. Her breath caught in her throat. She noticed the man in the opposite bed seemed equally distraught. Their eyes met, a wordless acknowledgement of the shared, devastating fate.

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