shaken - Story 131048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shattering glass had been the first clue. It was a picture frame, a souvenir from a happier time. Now, it was just shards on the floor. The new noises began immediately afterward, a symphony of destruction.

He pressed his hands against his ears, but the noise still reached him. He felt pinned down, trapped within himself. Trapped by the sounds, and the memories.

He sank to his knees, his breath catching in his throat. He wished he could disappear. He wished it would all just stop.

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