shaken - Story 131669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator car plunged into an abyss of darkness. Alex's vision narrowed, the world focusing only on the faint glow of his phone's screen. He was trying to find a signal, even though he knew there wouldn't be one. The elevator seemed to close in, slowly, surely.

He felt a cold sweat on his forehead. He started to pace in the confined space, a repetitive, erratic movement. He mumbled to himself, trying to stay calm. He had to be calm.

He took a sharp inhale, trying to fill his lungs. But the air felt thin and used.

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