shaken - Story 131520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was unusually busy, the chatter and clatter of mugs normally a comfort. Today, however, it grated on his nerves. He tapped a finger on the tabletop, a nervous rhythm that he couldn't control. He watched the steam curl from his untouched latte, the warmth doing nothing to ease the chill that had settled deep within him. He felt disconnected, as if observing his own life from a great distance.

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