shaken - Story 131676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, that can't be right," she muttered under her breath, staring at the university website. Professor Bell, her thesis advisor, was listed as “departing faculty.” A tremor went through her, starting in her stomach and spreading throughout her limbs. She instinctively reached for her phone, but her fingers fumbled as she tried to unlock it. The notification light on the screen suddenly seemed to pulse with an ominous red. She needed to sit down. Now.

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