shaken - Story 131820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering screen of the online portal seemed to mock her. Laura clicked on the profile, her cursor hovering over the "Schedule Appointment" button. The name above the information: "Dr. Adam Peterson, LMFT." Adam. The boy who’d made her school life a living nightmare. The boy who, it turned out, was now a marriage and family therapist.

Her fingers trembled, and she quickly pulled back her hand. The website seemed to hum with an unsettling energy. A coldness settled into her bones. Could she trust him? Could she ever trust him? She felt completely paralyzed. It was the ultimate betrayal.

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