shaken - Story 131844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 8:17 PM. A sterile, impersonal tone. The subject: "Noise Complaint." David reread the text several times. The accusation – excessive drumming – hung in the air like a physical presence. He rubbed his temples.

He felt disoriented. He had been so focused, lost in the rhythm, that he hadn't considered he might be disturbing anyone. His fingers tapped a restless beat on the kitchen table. He felt exposed, scrutinized.

He walked over to the drum set, a cold dread creeping into his limbs. He ran a hand over the snare drum. He was just starting to feel like he was finding his feet when this had to happen. He felt like his safe space had just been invaded.

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