shaken - Story 131826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the code on the screen, his own code, or rather, what *was* his code, displayed by the arrogant smug-faced guy next to him. He was a contractor, a freelancer, hired to get the job done. But this wasn't how it was supposed to go. This wasn't how he planned to get paid.

He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. The sound echoed in the empty office, and he felt a flush of heat rise up his neck. He felt hot, his cheeks burning.

He didn't say a word, just turned and walked away, the click-clack of his boots on the tile floor the only sound. He wanted to go home and hide.

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