shaken - Story 131059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down Olivia’s spine. She felt a profound chill, despite the stuffy air of the pawn shop. The ring. Her grandmother’s. She could feel the edges of her vision darkening.

She found herself reaching for the counter to steady herself. The metallic smell of the shop was making her feel sick. "Excuse me," she croaked, needing to say something, anything.

The shopkeeper, a woman with tired eyes, looked at her expectantly. Olivia couldn't meet her gaze, couldn't voice the burning questions churning inside. The room was spinning, threatening to pull her down.

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