shaken - Story 131816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're Sarah?" The receptionist's voice snapped Claire from her daze. She nodded, feeling her throat constrict. Her appointment was with "Dr. David Carter," a name that had played on repeat in her mind for days. David. The quiet boy who tormented her for years, mocking her clothes and her dreams.

She stood slowly, her body heavy and unresponsive. Her knees felt weak, threatening to buckle beneath her. Images of his cruel words, his taunts, flashed before her eyes. The urge to flee was overwhelming. She had to pull herself together. This time, she would not be defeated. This time, she would be strong.

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