shaken - Story 131413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. It had been a rough week, to put it mildly. She’d been worried about rent, worried about the overdue medical bills, worried about… everything. Now, this. Her hands were clammy as she flipped through the bills, counting. Too much. Far too much. A strange pressure built behind her eyes, the edges of her vision blurring. She sank onto the edge of her bed, the crisp, unfamiliar bills feeling like a physical weight on her lap.

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