shaken - Story 131380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door clicked shut behind her, seemingly of its own accord. A gasp escaped Sarah’s lips. She pressed her back against the cold wooden door, the flimsy latch offering no comfort. The room, barely lit by the meager sunlight from the crack at the top of the door, felt like a tomb. Her palms were clammy, and a cold sweat erupted across her forehead. She found herself muttering, "Hello?" as if expecting a response.

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