shaken - Story 131999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark stared at the online forum, his fingers numb. He'd been searching for information when he came across his essay. His essay, posted as an exemplar of the perfect application. He felt a profound sense of wrongness. The words looked different, somehow less his.

He started to feel a tingling sensation, a prickling behind his eyes. He slowly backed away from the computer, needing space, needing to breathe. He felt an intense need to disappear.

He moved into the hallway, feeling the wood under his feet. He leaned against the wall, trying to find some semblance of calm.

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