shaken - Story 131914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a cold slap. “Regarding the tree…” it began. My fingers fumbled as I scrolled down, the words blurring on the screen. Sarah’s words, usually warm and friendly, sounded cold and demanding. I stared at the screen, my heart hammering against my ribs. I rose abruptly, knocking over my chair. I felt a need to move, to be anywhere but here. The small, cluttered office suddenly felt like a tomb.

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