shaken - Story 131679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just finished a draft of his thesis. Professor Klein's email, informing him of his move, arrived like a tidal wave. He stared at the screen, the words swimming before his eyes. He felt a sudden wave of heat, and his face flushed. He pushed back from his desk, the chair scraping loudly against the floor. He paced the small confines of his room, each step heavy and deliberate, a futile attempt to make sense of the situation.

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