shaken - Story 131640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected to find it. He was just looking for a specific photo, but instead, he found a folded letter addressed to his daughter, from a time when he had been younger and more foolish. He sat down heavily on the floor, the world suddenly tilted.

His chest was tight, his breath shallow. The letter confessed mistakes, expressed deep love, and apologized for the pain he’d caused. He felt a wave of dizziness, his vision blurring.

He reached out, grasping the wall for support. His heart hammered against his ribs, a frantic rhythm against the stillness. The past, once distant, felt acutely present, a weight he wasn't sure he could bear.

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