panicked - Story 100993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. *Congratulations! Your application essay has been selected...* Her vision blurred. She reread the words, the congratulatory tone grating on her ears. Her hands started to sweat, dampening the keyboard as she stared at the screen. She felt a sudden need to flee, to escape the confines of her small apartment. The walls seemed to be closing in. She stood abruptly, knocking over her chair, and stumbled towards the window, gasping for air.

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