shaken - Story 131530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall seemed to spin. Amelia, a composer inspired by Finch’s immersive storytelling, had been invited to speak about his influence on her work. Now, the invitation felt like a cruel joke.

The lights of the stage blurred. Her carefully prepared speech now sat in her bag, a weight she could not bear to lift. Her throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The sound of the orchestra tuning felt like a discordant symphony of chaos.

She wanted to run, to disappear, to vanish before anyone noticed her. She squeezed her eyes shut, hoping the feeling would pass, and the world would stop.

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