shaken - Story 131189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself unable to focus on the book she'd been reading. The words blurred before her eyes, the sentences losing their meaning. Olivia had a knot in her stomach. Her breath hitched. The secret phone calls, the hurried excuses, and the furtive behavior had created a tension that was eating away at her. She threw the book on the table, the sound amplified in the quiet room. She got up and began to pace. Her steps felt unsteady, her legs heavy.

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