shaken - Story 131386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art gallery was deafening. Sarah stood frozen, the vibrant colours of the paintings blurring before her eyes. The man standing next to her, a man she’d thought she was building a life with, had just confessed his deception. “She’s been coming here with me,” he’d whispered, his voice barely audible. Sarah’s breath hitched in her chest. She took a step back, bumping into a sculpture. The cool metal against her back provided no solace. Her vision swam, the intricate details of the artwork merging into a confused blur. The room felt suddenly cramped, the air thick and heavy.

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