shaken - Story 131043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was already a fuzzy sort of place for Leo. Then the saw started up. The high-pitched whine sliced through him, making his teeth ache. He slumped back against the sofa, his fingers digging into the worn cushions.

He closed his eyes, willing the noise to cease. It only intensified, morphing into a constant, maddening roar. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run.

He got to his feet, swaying slightly. He needed to find somewhere quiet, somewhere he could think. He didn't want to think, though. Thinking made it worse.

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