shaken - Story 131340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Cozy Corner Cafe…closing?" Olivia's voice was a mere whisper. She felt a strange tingling in her extremities. The words echoed in her mind.

She rose from her seat, her movements jerky and uncoordinated. She felt a pressing need to move, to do *something*. She fumbled with the clasp of her purse, her fingers clumsy. The air in the room felt thick, heavy.

She walked towards the door, unsure where she was going. Her vision blurred, and the familiar surroundings seemed distorted, as though viewed through water.

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