shaken - Story 131355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat in the attic was oppressive. Emily hesitated before going up the pull-down stairs. This house was a fixer-upper, and she'd been meaning to explore the attic for weeks. This time, she felt a distinct reluctance.

A moth fluttered past her face. She shuddered, and took a step back.

She saw a collection of framed photographs. She picked one up. It was a formal portrait of a stern-faced woman. Her eyes seemed to follow Emily. She felt a wave of nausea, like she'd eaten something that didn't agree with her. Emily quickly put the photo back. She didn't want to know any of this.

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