shaken - Story 131818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt stagnant, thick with unspoken tension. Emily stared at the business card. "Dr. Bradley Hayes, PhD, Psychotherapist." Bradley. The boy who used to make fun of her lisp. Her tormentor. Her stomach churned. The world seemed suddenly warped, as though viewed through a distorted mirror.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the prickle of sweat on her skin. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. A nervous tremor started in her hands and worked its way up to her shoulders. It was a cruel joke, she thought. A terrible joke. Could she face him? Could she actually trust him?

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