shaken - Story 131108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling atmosphere of the bustling cafe was usually a welcome comfort, but today the noise grated on her nerves. "Alright, so this is how you operate the espresso machine," Maria said, her voice tight. The newcomer, a kid barely out of high school, simply stared at her blankly.

She gestured towards the machine, her hand trembling slightly as she demonstrated the proper technique. It was as if her entire life was being compressed into a single day, a single task. The bustling chatter of the cafe felt distant, as though it were happening in a different reality. The thought of all the changes to come made her feel lightheaded.

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