shaken - Story 131062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slumped onto the curb outside the university’s administration building, the rejection letter crumpled in his fist. The afternoon sun felt unusually harsh, beating down on him. The world seemed to wobble. His stomach lurched, a cold, empty feeling. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few stray strands. He couldn't seem to focus his thoughts. "I don't understand," he muttered, the words barely a whisper.

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