shaken - Story 131362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been avoiding his mailbox for days. The weight of unpaid bills and unopened junk mail seemed to grow with each passing dawn. Today, however, he had no choice. He needed to mail a package. He found the envelope at the bottom, sandwiched between a pizza coupon and a political pamphlet.

A lump formed in David's throat as he turned the card over. The paper was cheap, the handwriting childishly bold. He didn't recognize the style. “Happy Birthday! Hope you have a good one!” it read. A wave of heat washed over him, making his skin prickle. He hadn't celebrated his birthday in years.

He tossed the package back into the box. He couldn't deal. He needed to get away, needed some air. He slammed the mailbox door shut a little too hard.

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