shaken - Story 131076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the new art exhibit?" He asked. The question hung in the air. This was the first time she had heard his real voice. "It was good, right?" She knew it was him. The voice matched the username, the profile picture… everything. The man she'd been chatting with for months in a travel forum, sharing stories and art.

She swallowed hard, searching for a reply, but the words wouldn't form. The exhibit was across town, which meant he knew where she lived.

She ran a hand through her hair, her movements jerky. She suddenly wanted to go home. The world seemed less clear, and she wanted a safe space.

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