shaken - Story 131038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The publisher’s letter, apologizing for the “misunderstanding,” and offering a paltry sum, only intensified the anger that simmered within. Carol crumpled the letter, the paper crackling in her tight grip.

She slammed her fist on the table, the action jarring through her arm. She got up from her chair and started walking, aimlessly, through her house, not sure what to do. Her mind raced, a whirlwind of legal battles and accusations.

The silence of her house felt deafening, broken only by the frantic beat of her own heart. She felt like she'd lost control of her own narrative.

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