shaken - Story 131891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt slick between Maya's trembling fingers. An 'F'. Her stomach lurched. It was impossible. She’d spent weeks on the research, sacrificed sleep, even endured the librarian's condescending glances. Now, this. Her breath hitched, catching in her throat. The fluorescent lights of the hallway seemed to pulsate, mocking her. She crumpled the paper, the sound a sharp crack in the sudden silence.

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