shaken - Story 131759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was empty, save for her. The letter, from the defendant's lawyer, rested on the table before her, a stark white testament. His client confessed. He was guilty.

She’d spent years fighting for justice, for recognition, for an acknowledgment of the pain. She stared at the letter, its words echoing in her mind. Her hands were clammy. She felt a deep ache within her.

She looked around the room, the sterile environment seeming to press in on her. The silence was overwhelming, a sound like a roar. She closed her eyes.

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