shaken - Story 131667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a tightness in his chest, a feeling he hadn't experienced since... well, he couldn't even remember. It felt like something was constricting his lungs. He struggled to take a full breath. The air seemed thin, insufficient.

"Are you… okay?" The woman across from him, whose name he couldn't recall, looked at him with concern. He just nodded, unable to speak, his throat constricted.

He needed to get out. He needed open space. He began tapping his foot, a nervous, erratic rhythm against the metal floor.

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