shaken - Story 131197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal’s words echoed in her ears. "Mrs. Miller is a wonderful teacher, a true asset to our school.” She’d smiled and nodded, attempting to appear interested, composed. The lie felt thick on her tongue. It was *the* Mrs. Miller, wasn't it? The one with the perpetually pursed lips and the judging eyes. A cold sweat prickled across her brow.

She walked towards her car, the sun beating down on her, the heat intensifying her discomfort. Her steps were slower than usual, her gaze fixed on the ground. She couldn't shake the feeling of being trapped.

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