panicked - Story 100991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she scrolled. There it was. The essay, her carefully crafted words, now on the university's website. A glossy, highlighted version, nestled among others presented as exemplary. Her stomach clenched. A wave of heat washed over her, making her flush. She clicked the refresh button, hoping against hope it would vanish. It didn't. Her fingers trembled as she reached for her phone, dialing her best friend's number, but abruptly hung up. She had to process this, deal with it. Alone.

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