shaken - Story 131479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around him, stinging his face. The package, resting on the welcome mat, seemed to mock him. “For: Mr. Silas Blackwood.” Again. This was the third one.

He clenched his jaw, the muscles tightening. He’d been jumpy ever since he got that text message from an unknown number. He hadn't slept well in days.

He dragged the box inside. He walked through the apartment, not knowing what to do. The silence in the house was deafening. He felt a profound sense of isolation.

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