shaken - Story 131063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop’s cheerful chatter grated on Maya's nerves. The "We regret to inform you..." sentence was still burning itself into her memory. She took a large gulp of her lukewarm latte, the taste suddenly metallic. Her hands would not stop shaking, making the cup rattle against the saucer. She pulled her laptop closer, not sure what she was even doing, just needing something to distract her. She stared blankly at the screen.

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