shaken - Story 131949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know what to think. He couldn't. His partner, the quiet, thoughtful artist, had been writing a novel. It was about him, but it felt…off. The main character in the story seemed so cold and distant.

He ran a hand over his face, his skin prickling. He went to the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water, his hands trembling slightly as he filled the glass.

He stood by the window, watching the rain begin to fall. The droplets blurred the city lights. He felt like he was watching a movie of his own life, a movie he didn't star in.

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