shaken - Story 131046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted. It wasn't literal, of course, but the ground under Finn's feet felt unstable. He blinked, trying to regain his equilibrium. The jackhammer's vibrations were rattling through the walls, shaking his coffee cup on the kitchen table.

He stared at the cup, mesmerized by the way the coffee sloshed back and forth. He felt his stomach twist. He needed to get away from here.

He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door without looking back. He was going to spend the day at the library. He just needed to get away from it all.

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