shaken - Story 131673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," Emily stammered, her voice cracking as she spoke to the department head. Dr. Chen, her advisor, was retiring. Her carefully constructed schedule of meetings and research felt like it was unraveling before her very eyes. Her palms were clammy, and she clasped her hands together, knuckles white. The air seemed thick, making it difficult to breathe. She excused herself quickly, her vision tunneling as she walked back towards her lab, desperately clutching the door handle to steady herself.

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