shaken - Story 131003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed, a mundane symphony of clinking cups and murmured conversations. Sarah felt out of sync. She stared at the man seated across from her. He was young, and his forearm was a vivid replica of her abstract landscape painting, "Ephemeral Shores." She'd poured her heart into that canvas, and seeing it like this...

She blinked, focusing on the condensation dripping down the side of her mug. Her fingers twitched. She couldn’t seem to hold still. The pleasant aroma of coffee now felt overwhelmingly strong.

Her voice caught. "Why… why that piece?" she managed to ask, her voice barely a whisper. The smile on the man's face felt invasive.

Emotion: shaken

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.72 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.86

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shaken. 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 shaken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shaken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shaken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.351
`unable`	0.269
`focus`	0.266
`😞`	0.258
`다시`	0.257

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.769
`la`	-0.579
`a`	-0.375
`happy`	-0.292
`"`	-0.290