shaken - Story 131077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza place smelled like garlic and oregano, a smell that usually comforted Clara. But today, the aroma seemed to press down on her. The person taking her order was him. The man from the subreddit, the one who shared her love of obscure films. The familiar username on his apron.

She felt a rush of heat, flushing her cheeks. Her mouth was dry. She mumbled her order, then rushed out of the restaurant and into the busy street.

She felt a sudden urge to run, to escape the situation. The world felt slightly blurry.

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