shaken - Story 131138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the courtroom felt frigid, a stark contrast to the internal heat radiating through Leo. He sat rigidly, his hands clenched in his lap. His lawyer's words seemed distant, filtered through a haze.

The accuser's words stung, their accusations like needles. His mouth felt dry, his throat constricted. He could not look at his parents. The weight of potential consequences was almost unbearable.

He needed to find some solid ground in the swirling accusations.

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