shaken - Story 131399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He liked to unwind with a good book. He’d found a well-worn volume of poetry. A small, crumpled note tumbled free as he turned the final page. He picked it up. His stomach clenched. The note was a farewell, a goodbye.

He felt a chill despite the warmth of the fire. He stared at the words, his mind reeling. He felt an intense need to pace, to move, to do anything to break the tension that had seized him. He got up and walked around. He felt like he had to get out of the house.

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