shaken - Story 131249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the paperwork, the unfamiliar medical terms swimming before his eyes. He felt a cold dread creeping through his veins, spreading from his gut. He hadn't felt like this since... well, he didn't even want to think about it.

He pushed his chair back, the screech of the legs scraping against the floorboards. He stood up and began pacing his small, cramped apartment. Each footstep felt heavy.

He needed something, anything, to distract him. He switched on the TV, but the images flickered and blurred, the sound a cacophony. He turned it off, and the silence returned, heavier than before.

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