shaken - Story 131670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of being trapped, locked in this metal box, ignited a spark of panic. The room was getting hotter, the air heavier. Emily tried to keep her breathing slow and steady, but her heart was pounding against her ribs like a trapped bird.

She watched the other person in the elevator, a man from IT, who was now leaning against the wall, staring blankly ahead. He looked like he might collapse.

Emily focused on the floor, on the cracks in the metal, on anything to distract her. She took another breath, and then another. She couldn't give in. Not yet.

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