shaken - Story 131706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone was a jolt. Amy jumped, the file she was holding scattering papers across her desk. The simple mention of "the crafts cabin" from Tom had stirred the dust of long-forgotten memories, leaving her breathless.

She was surprised by the sudden, overwhelming sensation of dread. The air felt heavy, and she fumbled for the phone, her fingers clumsy on the buttons. She couldn’t seem to gather her thoughts.

She decided to make herself busy, to focus on anything besides Tom. She needed a distraction. It was all she could think about.

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