shaken - Story 131809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The DNA test results were on the coffee table, a physical manifestation of a family secret. The revelation was enough to make Claire's head spin. She felt a prickling sensation across her skin, a heightened sensitivity to every sound and movement in her house.

She reached for a glass of water, her hand knocking it over. The water spread across the table, mirroring the spreading confusion in her mind. She stood, staring at the mess, unable to react.

Claire sank onto the sofa, pulling her knees to her chest. The silence of the house felt oppressive, filled with unspoken words and hidden histories. She felt a profound sense of isolation.

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