shaken - Story 131586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a concert, a big one, a showcase of local talent. Daniel leaned against the back wall, observing the acts. Then the lights dimmed, and the stage erupted. The first notes of "Ephemeral Echoes" echoed through the arena. His song.

His heart started to race. He felt a peculiar dryness in his mouth. The band performed the song with incredible energy, but the vocalist's delivery felt superficial. It wasn't the way he felt it.

He pushed off the wall and felt a coldness wash over him. He felt as though someone had stolen something from him. He couldn’t look. He needed to leave, to get away from it. He began to elbow his way through the audience, needing to escape.

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