shaken - Story 131330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt caramel filled the otherwise silent kitchen. Chef Isabella stared at the scorched remnants of her signature dessert, the review's criticisms echoing in her mind. "Clumsy," it had declared. "Disappointing." Her hands trembled as she scraped the burnt sugar into the trash. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the edge of the counter to steady herself, her knuckles white. Her vision swam. Every success of the past year felt like a distant dream, replaced by this bitter present. The silence of the kitchen amplified the drumming of her own heart.

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