shaken - Story 131996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is great, honey!” her mother exclaimed, holding up the textbook. Emma peered at the open page, her heart sinking. It was her essay. Used as an example. The air seemed to compress around her, making it difficult to breathe.

She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a tightness in her chest. She forced a smile, but it felt wooden, unnatural. She felt a profound internal imbalance.

“I… I need some air,” she mumbled, her voice barely audible. She turned and practically bolted for the back door, leaving her mother, textbook in hand, looking confused.

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