shaken - Story 131176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a blow. Alex, her longtime buddy, confessed to being a taxi driver, not a financial advisor. This felt wrong. Everything about it felt… wrong. She had always looked up to him, envied his supposed high-flying lifestyle. The carefully constructed façade crumbled, leaving her with a strange emptiness.

She slammed the car door shut. The familiar scent of leather and old coffee suddenly made her feel ill. She needed to walk. Needed to think. Needed to sort through the confusion that had taken root in her gut. She kicked at a pebble, sending it skittering across the pavement, the sound sharp and jarring in the sudden silence.

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