shaken - Story 131298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening, the news of the cancelled party echoing in Sarah's head. She stared at the confetti scattered on the table, remnants of the decorations she had painstakingly assembled. Her mouth went dry. Her stomach churned, and she felt a sudden need to flee the space. She turned away from the table, wanting to push away from the memories. She paced from room to room, never pausing, searching for something to ground herself, something to ease the ache that was spreading through her.

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