shaken - Story 131243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white of the hospital room felt suffocating. She felt like she was trapped. Her hands trembled as she clutched the crumpled discharge papers. The nurse's casual dismissal of the error - "Just a mix-up, dear" - grated. How could it be just a mix-up?

She looked at her reflection in the window, her face pale. The reflection looked back at her, a stranger. The fear tightened its grip. She felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to run from this place, this nightmare.

She didn't know what to do. Her mind raced. The questions swirled in her head, unanswered, terrifying. Her stomach churned and she pressed a hand over it, trying to will the feeling away.

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