shaken - Story 131788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The listing. The house. The photos. He felt a profound sense of… something he couldn’t name. A hollowness settled in his stomach.

He spun away from the screen. He needed air. He felt confined, trapped. The apartment walls seemed to be closing in. He shoved open the window, gulping down the cool evening air.

He felt a deep well of something rising, threatening to spill over. He had to keep moving, keep busy, to keep the memories at bay.

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