shaken - Story 131055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to compress around Maya. The smell of dust and old metal was suffocating. She gripped the edge of the counter, her knuckles white. The ring, glittering under the harsh lights, a cruel mockery of love and commitment.

She felt a strange disassociation, as if she were watching herself from outside her body. She had to take a few steps back to keep herself stable. The shopkeeper, a woman with a severe expression, watched her with an unsettlingly calm gaze.

"Is everything alright?" the woman asked, her voice flat. Maya found it hard to meet her eyes, her mind reeling. She just shook her head, unable to speak, the weight of the moment pressing down on 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