shaken - Story 131592 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Thomas slammed the door of his apartment, the wood vibrating with the force of his frustration. He couldn't seem to stop the tremor that ran through his hands as he reread the editor’s polite but firm dismissal. He'd poured his heart into this novel, painstakingly crafting each sentence, each character. Now, it was just… nothing.

He kicked a discarded water bottle across the room, the plastic clinking against the hardwood floor. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to dismantle something, anything. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. The silence of the apartment, once a haven for his creativity, now felt suffocating, pressing in on him.

He pictured the editor's face, the professional smile, the carefully chosen words, and felt a wave of cold wash over him.

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