shaken - Story 131566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten about his own party. Mark hadn’t even chosen a cake yet. He’d been focusing on all the wrong things. The news of Liam’s party hit him like a physical blow. He felt a wave of dizziness and had to clutch the edge of his desk to steady himself.

He stared at his computer screen, blank and unhelpful. The email invitation from Liam, flashing in the corner of the screen, felt like a deliberate act of sabotage. It was like a door slammed shut on a future he'd been planning.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and agitated. He couldn't seem to think straight. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He wanted to scream.

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