shaken - Story 132000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Congratulations, you’re in!" The words had been a dream come true, until she saw the magazine. Amelia had been flipping through the glossy pages when she saw it – her college application essay, a featured example. She felt a profound disorientation. The world seemed to tilt.

She gripped the magazine, her knuckles white. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain in her chest. She needed to leave, to get away.

Amelia stood up, the chair scraping against the floor. She walked towards the door, ignoring the stares. She felt a desperate desire to run.

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