shaken - Story 131790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar street. The familiar house. But everything was changed. He felt like he’d been punched in the gut. The listing showed a life he no longer knew.

He stared, unblinking, the images blurring, the details swimming. He picked up his phone, then quickly put it down. He couldn’t share this with anyone. The emotions, raw and untamed, were his alone.

He felt a sudden need to be alone, to process this private tragedy. He grabbed his coat, and left the apartment.

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