shaken - Story 131061 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in her inbox, bright and accusatory. Amelia stared at the subject line: “Scholarship Decision - Your Application.” Her fingers, usually steady as she typed code, trembled slightly as she clicked the mouse. The words blurred, but the gist was clear. Denial. A wave of heat washed over her, prickling her skin. She gripped the edge of her desk, knuckles white, and squeezed her eyes shut. The small, cluttered room seemed to shrink, the walls closing in.

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