shaken - Story 131156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Chloe muttered under her breath, staring at the message on her phone. Her pulse hammered against her ribs. The notification had arrived just moments ago. It was from the company. The same company she and Emily had both applied to.

She felt a wave of nausea. She tossed the phone onto the couch. She found herself clutching her chest. It was a suffocating feeling.

She walked towards the kitchen, and grabbed the nearest glass. The cold water offered little relief, but at least gave her something else to think about.

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