shaken - Story 131115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You’re moving to forward," the hockey coach said, his voice clipped and business-like. Amelia, the team's reliable defenseman, blinked. Forward? The idea sent a ripple of unease through her. Her usual serenity was gone.

She stood frozen in place as the rest of the team moved on. The clatter of equipment seemed to increase in volume.

A wave of heat washed over her face. She usually loved the cold, fresh air on the ice, the adrenaline, the thrill. Now, the rink looked alien, somehow hostile. Each step felt unsteady.

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