shaken - Story 131477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long, distorted shadows across the hallway. The package, large and bulky, seemed to absorb the light. I had been feeling unsettled all morning, that interview had gone terribly. This was just adding to the pile of worries. The label read "To: D. Carter." Not me.

I gripped the doorknob, knuckles white. The air felt thick, heavy, making it difficult to breathe. I wondered if I should take it inside. Or leave it. Or…

I unlocked the door, and with trembling hands, I picked it up. This time, I'd bring it inside. Then what?

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