shaken - Story 131506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright, dear?” Her mother’s voice, concerned, cut through the fog in her mind. Clara could feel her heart hammering in her chest.

She nodded, forcing a smile. “Fine. Just… tired.” The words felt hollow, inadequate. She avoided her mother's gaze, unwilling to meet the concern in her eyes. The dog. Again.

She watched, her eyes darting back and forth from the dog to her mother, who was now looking over at the dog. Every muscle in her body was tense. She felt trapped in an invisible cage.

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