shaken - Story 131229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t know how long he'd been sitting there, but the sun was setting, casting long, distorted shadows across the living room. James, exhausted, felt disoriented. He looked around the room, littered with the artifacts of his childhood. He felt a peculiar mix of fondness and unease.

He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes. He got up from his position on the floor, stumbling slightly. He needed to get some air.

He felt a powerful urge to just run away.

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