shaken - Story 131184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn't meet her gaze. The casual indifference he’d cultivated for years suddenly felt like a brittle shield. David felt the blood drain from his face as he watched her pick up the phone. It was the same one. He'd seen the missed calls, hidden in the labyrinth of the recently dialed. His fingers curled into fists. He watched her as she spoke, her tone even, but her eyes, her eyes were different. He felt as though the floor beneath him was tilting. He took a step back, needing to put distance between himself and the truth he sensed was unfolding.

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