shaken - Story 131435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had been curt, the voice on the other end matter-of-fact. "Your 'Ocean Breeze' cocktail is trending, but we've rebranded it. We won't be needing your services anymore." That was it. Now, seeing the glowing neon sign for "Coral Reef Cocktails" outside the swanky bar, she felt a profound sense of… something.

She ran a hand through her hair, her fingers tangling. She thought she would have to throw up. It wasn't anger. It was… a hollow ache. It sat in her stomach like a lead weight.

She took a shaky breath, then quickly walked away from the bar. She had a sudden craving for quiet, for somewhere empty.

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