shaken - Story 131226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright, honey?” His wife, Sarah, spoke from the doorway of the spare room. Michael had spent the entire morning alone, poring over the boxes. Her tone was gentle, concerned. He couldn't answer. He just shook his head.

He ran a hand through his hair. He felt suddenly ill. The room seemed to spin.

He felt a deep well of something he couldn't name. He just stared at the box, the lid resting on the floor.

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