shaken - Story 131328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen suddenly felt thick, heavy, unbreathable. Chef Sofia pushed away from the stove, her usual energy dissipated, leaving her feeling hollow. The review was brutal, a demolition of her new concept. "Overpriced," it had announced. "Undercooked." She felt the familiar fire in her stomach. Her heart raced. She looked at her sous chef, who averted his gaze. She grabbed a small glass of water, and found she couldn't bring it to her lips. She had built this restaurant from scratch. What if she lost everything?

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