shaken - Story 131900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was used to good grades. A 'C'. The red ink on the paper felt like a branding iron. His mouth went dry. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck tightening. He crumpled the paper and threw it in the trash, then immediately regretted it. He pulled it back out, smoothing the paper out as best as he could, his fingers tracing the letters, as if they would change. He had to be calm. He had to think.

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