shaken - Story 131195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin. Amelia stumbled back, her hand flying to her chest. The classroom door was open, and through it, she saw a familiar face, a face that haunted her nightmares. Mrs. Rodriguez. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn't breathe.

She felt a dizzy spell coming on, and she quickly focused on taking deep, even breaths. She could feel her eyes welling up with tears, and she blinked them away. Her shoulders slumped slightly. She couldn't let her daughter see her like this.

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