shaken - Story 131006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gorgeous, isn't it?" The tattoo artist beamed, pointing to the portrait of her grandmother that Amelia had spent months creating. The portrait was now on the artist's bicep. Amelia's face flushed. The sudden warmth was uncomfortable, almost suffocating.

She forced a weak laugh. "Yes, very… detailed." Her heart hammered. She had to get out of there. The sterile white of the studio walls seemed to close in on her.

She excused herself abruptly, practically fleeing into the afternoon sun. The sunlight seemed too bright.

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