shaken - Story 131296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air seemed to suddenly turn frigid as Sophia read the email. She'd been so eager, so excited. All the planning, the efforts, now useless. She slumped against the brick wall of the building. She wrapped her arms around herself, as if to ward off the chill that had permeated her bones. Her lower lip trembled, and she bit down hard on it, drawing a sharp, stinging pain that was the only thing that felt real. She felt hollow, stripped bare.

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