shaken - Story 131814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's good," her friend had said, oblivious to the tremor in Maya's voice. "Really helped me with my anxiety." The words seemed to bounce in Maya's head, each one a sharp blow. She sat stiffly in the small waiting room. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick and heavy. A brochure, advertising therapy services, lay on the coffee table. The name "Jason Holt, MA, LPC" stared up at her.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat. She recalled the way Jason had always smirked, the way he'd enjoyed seeing her flustered. Now, he was supposed to provide comfort? The very thought made her skin crawl. She had to leave, she decided. Right then.

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