shaken - Story 131727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of old books filled the library. John unfolded the letter carefully, his fingers tracing the familiar loops of his father's script. His dad's words, penned long ago, echoed in his mind, and he felt a pull deep inside. He never knew his father had been so unhappy.

He looked around the familiar room and felt a deep sense of wrongness. The silence of the library seemed to press in on him. He felt as if someone had punched him in the stomach. He just wanted to get out.

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