shaken - Story 131440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the local bakery, anticipating the familiar aroma of his "Chocolate Decadence" cake. Instead, he was greeted by the display case featuring "Midnight Delight," an exact replica of his recipe. The air seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. He felt a sudden, inexplicable chill.

He stood rooted to the spot, his gaze fixed on the cake. His hands clenched into fists at his sides.

He abruptly spun around and walked out of the bakery, the front door slamming behind him with a loud crash. He felt a profound sense of wrongness that permeated his every thought.

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