shaken - Story 131049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy. It made her want to scream. She had just finished a painting and was looking forward to the next, when the pounding began. It was a constant reminder of the life outside that she was trying to avoid.

She retreated to her bedroom, pulling the covers over her head. The rhythmic hammering was muffled, but still present. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could silence it, wishing she could silence the world.

Her heart pounded. She felt trapped. The walls seemed to be closing in around her.

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