shaken - Story 131155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was thick. They had left the job interview together, side-by-side, but the shared silence was the only thing they shared. Mark drove, his jaw tight, his knuckles white against the steering wheel. He kept the radio off. He could feel his friend, David, beside him, mirroring his unspoken tension.

He didn't know what to do. His stomach churned. He pulled over to the side of the road, the sudden stop jolting both of them.

"I need some air," he mumbled, pushing open the car door. The cold wind bit at his face.

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