shaken - Story 131309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so sure of his position, his value. Then he saw the salary, and the earth shifted beneath his feet. Thomas ran a hand through his hair, a gesture meant to ground him, but it didn't work. His hands were clammy.

He abruptly stood up, pushing his chair away so it screeched on the floor, the sound grating on his ears. He needed space. He needed to think. He needed, most of all, for this feeling to simply go away. He went to the water cooler, and poured a cup of water, but he couldn't bring himself to drink it.

The entire landscape had changed.

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