shaken - Story 131830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt stifling. The judge was speaking, the words a meaningless drone. Across the aisle, sat her rival, his lawyer smiling a cold, professional smile. The patent claims, the accusations, the legal maneuvering… all of it was designed to tear her down.

She clutched her handbag, her knuckles white. She could feel the rapid thump of her heart, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. She was going to fight. She had to. But the weight of the situation threatened to crush her.

She had to remind herself to breathe.

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