shaken - Story 131678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s terse email arrived at 2 AM, right after a long night of studying. Sarah, already stressed, stared at the words, her eyes stinging. Dr. Evans, her mentor, was moving to another institution. She threw her hands up in the air and then brought them to her face. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the reality of the situation. Her breath hitched, and she struggled to find calm. She felt completely, utterly adrift.

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