shaken - Story 131739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So... Vegas, huh?" Alex said, his voice flat. He sat across from his friend, Ben, in their usual booth at the diner. Ben, animated and excited, was chattering about opportunities and new beginnings. Alex could barely focus.

He pushed his untouched plate of pancakes away. The aroma of maple syrup suddenly repelled him. He felt strangely disconnected, as though he was watching the scene unfold from a distance. The diner, normally a source of comfort, felt cramped and oppressive.

He fiddled with a napkin, tearing it into tiny pieces. He felt a profound sense of loss, a void opening up inside him. The world seemed to have tilted on its axis, and everything felt wrong.

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