shaken - Story 131188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of the ice in his whiskey glass seemed deafening. The silence after her hurried explanation about "work" was even worse. Thomas remained seated, paralyzed by the information scrolling before his eyes. The phone's call history. The hours of the calls. The name that kept reappearing. It was a phantom, and it consumed everything. He felt a deep, chilling emptiness spreading through his veins. He looked up, trying to speak, but the words caught in his throat.

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