shaken - Story 131874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist walked through the bustling art fair, a knot forming in his throat. He saw it from a distance, the sculpture. His sculpture. He felt a wave of dizziness, the vibrant colors of the tents blurring around him. He'd never signed it, never intended it for exhibition. His breath hitched as he approached, his fingers twitching at his sides. He saw people pointing, laughing, taking photos. He wanted to scream, to run.

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