shaken - Story 131255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist stared at the gallery's online announcement, a knot twisting in her stomach. The painting, *her* painting, the one she'd spent months perfecting, was being attributed to another artist. A chill washed over her, making her skin prickle with goosebumps.

She felt a strange disconnect from her body, as if she were observing herself from a distance. She stumbled back a pace, her hand instinctively going to her chest, as if she could physically hold the pieces of her back together.

She closed her eyes, trying to force the images of the painting out of her mind. When she reopened them, her gaze found the window and the grey sky outside, mirroring the bleakness she felt within.

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