shaken - Story 131295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I… I don’t understand,” Liam stammered, staring at his reflection in the mirror. The text message announcing the cancellation seemed to swim before his eyes. He’d pictured himself laughing, surrounded by friends. Now, a cold dread seized him, freezing him in place. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end. He felt a profound sense of loss, a weight pressing down on his shoulders. He felt an urge to run, to escape the confines of his own skin.

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