shaken - Story 131976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a small herb garden, dear," Mrs. Davies' voice was a singsong melody he usually enjoyed. Today, it was grating. The cheerful tone felt like an assault.

The afternoon sun beat down, turning the air thick and sticky. My hands felt cold, clammy. I could feel my pulse quicken in my throat. I couldn't meet her eyes. My gaze darted around, searching for a distraction. "I... I'll have to get back to you," I mumbled, backing away.

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