shaken - Story 131824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer across the table was explaining the ramifications of the situation. Alex found it hard to concentrate, the words swimming in his head. Identical patents. Years of research, potential revenue, all up for grabs. He felt a tremor running through his body, beginning in his fingers and spreading outwards.

He pushed his chair away from the table, needing air. He could feel the blood rushing in his ears. The room, usually a haven of order and calm, now felt hostile and constricting.

The lawyer stopped talking, and looked at Alex with a concerned expression. "Are you alright?"

Alex merely shook his head and waved his hand dismissively at the lawyer.

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