shaken - Story 131356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a mistake,” Mark muttered to himself as he fumbled with the attic door. The wood felt cold and unfamiliar under his fingers. He hadn't expected to find anything.

He noticed a small, wooden box tucked away in a corner. It was plain, unadorned. His hands began to tremble as he reached for it. He set the box on the floor and went back down the stairs.

He left the attic door ajar, the light from the hallway casting an elongated shadow across the floor. He leaned against the wall. He needed some air.

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