shaken - Story 131168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin slightly as he saw her, talking to the bride’s mother. He felt a strange lightness in his head, a detachment from his own body. He stood frozen, his feet rooted to the spot. His carefully constructed facade of composure cracked.

He watched her, every gesture, every expression, with an intensity that surprised him. He felt a sudden, overwhelming need to look away, to break the gaze, but he couldn't. His eyes were locked on hers, held captive.

He felt the corners of his mouth twitch, the beginnings of a nervous tic. He reached for a glass of water, his hand trembling slightly. He brought it to his lips, but couldn't seem to take a sip.

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