shaken - Story 131947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the page blurred. "The Secret Life of Evelyn." Sarah felt an icy grip on her stomach as she skimmed through the pages. The woman in the story, based entirely on her, was vulnerable, fragile, yet somehow beautiful in her vulnerability.

Sarah clutched the book to her chest, her knuckles white. She sat in the armchair, the soft cushions feeling like a trap.

The sound of his key in the lock jolted her. She slammed the book shut, her heart leaping. She straightened her posture, trying to appear calm, but a wave of nausea washed over her.

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