shaken - Story 131368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee usually filled the kitchen, but today, Sarah barely noticed. The unsigned birthday card sat on the table. The words, "Enjoy your day!", felt like a taunt. She ran her fingers across the glossy photo on the front: a picture of a street that she recognized.

Her appetite vanished. She hadn't eaten anything all day. The card was a problem, a glitch. She started second-guessing everything. She was normally so self-assured. Now, she felt like she was trapped in a funhouse, the mirrors distorting reality.

She closed her eyes, trying to calm her racing heart. She wasn't safe. She wouldn't be safe until she knew.

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