shaken - Story 131819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room seemed to spin. Samuel, usually a picture of composure, found himself fidgeting, rearranging the magazines on the table. He was there to seek help for his anger issues. The name on the door read, "Dr. Kevin Miller, LCSW." Kevin. The kid who'd pushed him around, the one who'd delighted in his insecurities.

He felt a knot tighten in his gut, a familiar sensation of dread and vulnerability. He ran a hand through his hair, his pulse racing. He wanted to leave, right then. The thought of being vulnerable in front of him made his stomach sink. But he also knew he desperately needed help.

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