shaken - Story 131159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit David hard. He sat on the edge of his bed, unable to move. The walls seemed to be closing in around him. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over, as if trying to find a solution. He could feel the weight of expectation.

He stood up, intending to get a glass of water, but he ended up pacing instead. Each footfall echoed in the otherwise silent apartment. He had to do something.

He collapsed back onto the bed, the mattress offering little comfort.

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