shaken - Story 131436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The Perfect Pie” – that’s what the magazine cover proclaimed, and there, in a large, appetizing photo, was her "Berry Bliss Pie," her grandmother's treasured recipe. Her pulse hammered in her ears. She felt a prickling sensation on the back of her neck.

She reread the article, each word a blow. The new name. The supposed "creator." She felt a need to collapse, to disappear. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world.

She sank into the nearest chair. Her hands were clammy, her mouth dry. She didn't know what to do. The magazine slipped from her grasp and landed soundlessly on the floor.

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