shaken - Story 131193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parking lot felt miles long. Sarah trudged towards the school building, her hand gripping the keys so tightly her knuckles were white. Sunlight glinted off the windows, reflecting back the image of a building that suddenly seemed hostile. Her breath hitched. The knot in her stomach tightened with each step. It felt like walking into a trap.

The school secretary greeted her with a warm smile. "Welcome to Northwood Elementary! Can I help you?"

Sarah forced a smile. "Yes, I... I need to find Mr. Davies' classroom." Her voice was barely a whisper. She couldn't believe this was happening.

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