shaken - Story 131942 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the manuscript, titled “The Glare.” The font blurred as the words danced. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his agitated fingers. Liam, always so quiet, always so reserved, had secretly been weaving his thoughts. He didn't know what to do.

He walked over to the window, the city lights reflecting in the glass. His own reflection stared back, a mask of confusion. The apartment looked cold, his stomach clenched.

His phone buzzed on the table. It was a text from Liam: *"Dinner at 7?"* He felt a wave of nausea, the image of Liam, pen in hand, replaying in his mind.

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