shaken - Story 131563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on Maya’s nightstand, a jarring noise that sent a pulse of anxiety through her. It was Chloe, her best friend, confirming her RSVP to Liam’s party. Maya stared at the screen, her heart hammering against her ribs.

Chloe had known about Maya's party for months, the backyard barbecue she’d been meticulously planning. The thought of Chloe celebrating Liam's birthday instead was like a physical blow. She wrapped her arms around herself.

She took a shaky breath, then forced herself to reply: “Sounds fun! See you there!” The words felt hollow, a flimsy shield against an encroaching storm. She turned away from her own reflection. She no longer recognized her own face.

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