shaken - Story 131306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the darkened computer screen, his face a mask of disbelief. The numbers, casually shared in a boastful email, felt like a punch to the gut. John, the new hire, made more? The information left a bitter taste in his mouth.

He slammed his fist on the desk. The sharp crack echoed in the empty office. He needed air. He rose and walked to the window, the city lights blurring through unshed tears.

He felt a deep and visceral feeling of betrayal.

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