shaken - Story 131192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost missed the sign-up sheet. The new parent coffee was tomorrow morning. He’d been distracted, wrestling with a particularly stubborn plumbing issue, and now this. He reread the name: Ms. Peterson. His stomach dropped. *Ms. Peterson*. A wave of nausea rolled over him. He felt his face flush, and he swallowed hard.

His wife, Sarah, walked into the kitchen, humming. "Everything okay, honey?"

"Yeah," he managed, his voice sounding distant. He tried to smile, but he suspected it looked forced. "Just... thinking about the school." He gripped the edge of the counter, the cool granite a small comfort.

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