shaken - Story 131199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been so excited for her daughter, Lily, starting kindergarten. Now, all that excitement evaporated, replaced by a cold dread. The teacher's name was printed in large, friendly letters on the welcome packet: Miss Finch. He felt a chill run down his spine. The same Miss Finch.

She sat on the sofa, clutching the packet. She stared at the picture of the school building, it appeared to be glaring back at her. Her breath caught in her throat. She had to get herself together.

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