shaken - Story 131629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I nearly dropped my phone. Mr. Olsen, my math teacher, had started following me on Snapchat. He was usually such a stoic figure, all business and numbers. I felt my chest compress.

Every snap I sent, every fleeting moment of my day, was now potentially visible to him. I felt a cold knot form in the pit of my stomach. My appetite vanished.

Even a simple phone call with a friend took a strange turn, as I became guarded and anxious, constantly wondering.

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