shaken - Story 131008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had come at dawn, jolting him awake. A fan had tattooed his intricate mandala design onto their entire back. The photographer’s images of the finished tattoo, sent via text, stared back at him. David's jaw ached with tension.

He rose from bed and began to pace his small apartment. The morning light felt harsh and unforgiving. He needed to walk, to move, to do something to ground himself. He grabbed his keys.

The air outside offered no relief.

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