shaken - Story 131840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unopened envelope in her hand was almost unbearable. Emily hadn't opened it. The sight of it had triggered an avalanche of thoughts, a tidal wave of conflicting emotions. The carefully concealed account was proof of a carefully cultivated lie.

She felt a pressure building in her chest, a sensation akin to being submerged underwater. The mundane tasks of her day had become impossible, her focus scattered like dust. Every word, every touch, every shared moment with Richard now felt tainted.

She needed time. Time to process, to understand, to decide what to do next. But time, she realised with a jolt, was exactly what she didn't have.

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