shaken - Story 131770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, the blood draining from his face. Where the willow had gracefully wept, there was only vacant space. He felt a strange tingling sensation spread through his limbs, as if they were no longer his own. He wanted to shout at someone, to demand an explanation.

He spun around, the world seemed to be spinning with him. He took off running, back toward his car, he was going to find out who would do such a thing. He was desperate.

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