shaken - Story 131828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s the same, word for word,” the editor said, his voice flat. He pointed at the two manuscripts laid out side by side. Each story had the same exact scenes. Same characters, same plot, same everything.

Maria felt her face flush, the blood pounding in her ears. She felt like she was trapped in a box. Her mind raced. Did someone steal it? Or had she somehow… forgotten? She couldn’t make any sense of it.

She pushed back from the table. She wanted to run. She needed to escape this moment. She needed air.

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