shaken - Story 131365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the porch as Claire cautiously picked up the card. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She usually loved this time of day. Now, it felt oppressive.

The card depicted a cartoon cat holding a birthday cake. The inscription was trite: "Hope you have a purr-fect day!" Claire was pretty sure no one knew it was her birthday, except for one person. She had been sure that person was gone.

She backed away from the mailbox, her hand still clutching the card. Her gaze darted around, searching for the slightest sign. The air felt heavy, charged. A fine sheen of sweat coated her skin.

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