shaken - Story 131943 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing within Clara. She had discovered the book after finding a new journal in their bedside table, a red one. It was all about her: her ambition, her love of old movies, the way she chewed her lip when she was nervous.

She paced the length of their small living room, her steps erratic. The floorboards creaked with each turn, a sound that amplified the tension in her chest.

Picking up a framed photograph from the mantle, she traced her finger over her face. She looked happy in it, the photo taken on their anniversary, taken before she knew the truth. She put the frame back, the movement awkward and hesitant.

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