shaken - Story 131219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a chill creep up my spine as Emily finished her story. She recounted the bike ride as a carefree adventure, full of sunshine and laughter. I, on the other hand, recalled a different picture. I remember struggling to keep up, the looming threat of the highway, a feeling of utter exhaustion. The smile she wore seemed alien to me. The memory felt like a heavy weight, pressing down on my chest. I stared at my hands, not sure what to say, wanting to disappear.

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