shaken - Story 131036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the one," the woman said, her voice smooth and unnervingly calm. Amelia recognized her from the book: the woman who'd once been her best friend, the source of some of the book's juiciest anecdotes.

Amelia’s stomach lurched. She swallowed hard, struggling to keep her face neutral. The coffee shop, usually a haven, now seemed hostile, the other patrons mere observers.

She could barely bring herself to meet the woman’s gaze. The truth of her life felt like a secret that had been torn open, and she felt raw, open, and vulnerable.

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