shaken - Story 131418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was too loud, too crowded. The clinking of cutlery, the babble of conversations, the sharp smell of garlic—all of it grated on his nerves. He kept flinching, feeling exposed, vulnerable. The wallet felt hot in his pocket. He couldn’t enjoy the food, couldn’t focus on the conversation. He excused himself and went to the restroom, splashing cold water on his face, trying to calm the erratic rhythm of his pulse.

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