shaken - Story 131899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared blankly at the screen. A 'C'. A surge of dizziness washed over her. She felt a need to sit down. She reached out to grasp the edge of the desk for stability. Her vision blurred, the words on the screen becoming abstract shapes. She took a deep breath, fighting to regain control. The world narrowed to the small glowing rectangle in front of her. The notification felt heavy, a burden.

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