shaken - Story 131892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the grade, a cold knot forming in his chest. A 'C-'. Liam usually sailed through history. His palms were slick with sweat. He blinked, trying to clear his vision, but the number swam before his eyes. He felt a disconnect, as if he were observing himself from a distance. He mumbled under his breath, "This can’t be right.” Then, he turned and fled the classroom, his backpack banging against his legs as he hurried away.

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