shaken - Story 131979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual way her neighbor, Mr. Chen, posed the question caught her completely off guard. The sun had just set, painting the sky in fiery hues, but she felt a coldness creep through her bones.

He had simply asked if he could plant some vegetables. She had no idea why the words felt like a physical blow. She swallowed hard, struggling to meet his gaze. Her hands shook. She struggled for an answer, finally settling on a strained, "I need to... think about it."

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