shaken - Story 131627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Coach Miller, the man who made us run laps until we felt like collapsing, had followed me on Instagram. I saw the request pop up and my mind went blank for a few seconds.

I sat down on the edge of my bed. I felt a chill, despite the warm summer air. I was instantly on edge. Every comment he made in class, every casual remark, now carried an undertone. I wanted to ask him to unfollow me, but the thought of confrontation paralyzed me.

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