shaken - Story 131079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ice in her drink clinked loudly as she put it down. The same coffee shop. The same quiet corner. The guy from the poetry forum was right in front of her, ordering a drink. Her friend, James. She’d always assumed he was across the ocean.

She found herself unable to breathe properly. A tightness constricted her chest. She needed to leave.

She rose abruptly, nearly knocking over her chair. She grabbed her bag and fled the cafe, the abruptness of her movement leaving her feeling hollow.

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