shaken - Story 131360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't wanted to go up there, but the realtor had insisted. Alex took a deep breath and opened the attic door. The air hung thick, almost solid. He felt off-balance.

He found a stack of old books. He ran his hand over the spines, his fingers coated in dust. He saw one particular book. He opened it. His vision blurred.

He backed out of the attic, feeling the blood drain from his face. He didn't lock the door. He just ran.

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