shaken - Story 131337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news about "The Sea Siren" hit Amelia like a crashing wave. She felt a sensation of dizziness, a disconnect from the room. She was so used to the warmth of the lights, the salty smell of the sea, the friendly faces. It felt as if a part of herself was being stolen.

Her hands moved to her chest, as if trying to hold herself together. Her throat felt tight. Her lips formed the words, "No…." but no sound emerged. She needed to tell someone, anyone.

She picked up the phone, her fingers numb. She dialed her sister's number, but hesitated. How could she possibly explain this void she felt?

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