shaken - Story 131007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery opening was supposed to be a triumph. For Clara, it was a disaster. A woman with her vibrant, almost childlike artwork permanently inked on her shoulder, stood before her, gushing about how much she loved it. Clara’s smile felt frozen.

She excused herself to the restrooms. Her reflection stared back, pale and drawn. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to clear her head. The tile felt cold beneath her hands.

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight the feeling of unreality that threatened to engulf her.

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