shaken - Story 131518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the pale, drawn face staring back. His eyes were bloodshot, and dark circles underscored his fatigue. The image seemed distorted, like a funhouse mirror. The knot in his stomach tightened again, and he took a shaky breath. He felt the sting of tears, which he fought to hold back. He turned away from the mirror, unable to bear the sight any longer.

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