shaken - Story 131245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He stumbled back, bumping into the wall. The email, with the attachments, still sat on his monitor. He couldn't seem to process the information. It was all so… wrong.

He paced his apartment, muttering to himself. This couldn’t be happening. He tried to think, but his thoughts scattered like leaves in the wind. The silence of his apartment felt like a pressure, closing in on him.

He slammed his fist against the wall, a burst of frustration he didn’t know he possessed. He grabbed his coat and keys, needing to escape, needing to be anywhere but there.

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