shaken - Story 131136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His face, pale and drawn, was unfamiliar. Mark splashed cold water on his face, trying to clear his head, but it felt like the water just ran over him. The image was still there, the accusation etched across his mind.

He leaned against the cold tiles, the smooth surface a small comfort. He felt as though he’d been punched in the gut, his breath stolen. His entire academic career, all his hard work, was suddenly on the line.

He didn't know how to fix it.

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