shaken - Story 131377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unexpected opening of the wall panel left David feeling disoriented. He'd been renovating the kitchen for weeks. Now he stared at the room beyond. It was a complete shock. He felt as though he’d been plunged into icy water. He could taste the metallic tang of fear on his tongue. He rubbed his arms, trying to stave off the sudden chill, despite the heat of the oven behind him. He needed to get out, he thought, quickly.

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