shaken - Story 131817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights of the cafe seemed too bright, the music too loud. Michael's coffee sat untouched, the steam curling and dissipating. He'd been looking for a therapist. Then, he’d seen the name: "Dr. Ryan Parker." Ryan. The kid who'd tripped him and made him the butt of every joke in elementary school.

A wave of heat surged through him, making his face burn. The world seemed to tilt slightly. He felt disoriented. It was a bizarre, surreal turn of events. He kept replaying their interactions in his mind. He couldn't imagine sitting across from him now. Yet, here he was. He felt a deep sense of unease.

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