shaken - Story 131037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The biography was a bestseller. Everywhere Michael looked, he saw the book, on tables at cafes, on the subway, in the hands of strangers. He felt like a zoo animal, his life on display.

He considered changing his name, fleeing the city, erasing himself from existence. He felt suffocated by the constant awareness of the book's presence.

He stopped going outside. The world outside, once full of possibility, now represented exposure.

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