shaken - Story 131025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Uncle Ben, look! It’s Gleep!” Six-year-old Toby thrust a crayon drawing at Ben. Ben's gut clenched. The creature on the page was strikingly similar to the friend of his youth: a green, three-legged monster. The recognition struck him with the force of a physical blow. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips.

He forced a laugh, a sound that felt hollow and brittle. "Wow, Toby, that's… imaginative." His smile felt fixed, unnatural. He wanted to run. He felt a sharp jab in his chest, as if his heart had skipped a beat. He needed to get out of the house, away from this impossible reality. The air tasted stale.

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