shaken - Story 131903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Amelia's grasp, the lukewarm liquid sloshing dangerously close to the rim. She sat in the student union, the bright, bustling space now feeling oppressive. The radio announced the news, and suddenly, everyone's heads turned towards each other, murmuring their disbelief. Her hands felt clammy.

Amelia's meticulously organized planner sat open on the table, its pages now mocking her. Plans, schedules, goals - all felt absurd, trivial in the face of this devastating news. She couldn't feel her feet. A single tear escaped and traced a path down her cheek. She blinked rapidly, desperate to hold back more, but the dam was cracking.

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