shaken - Story 131799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful wallpaper in the nursery seemed to mock her. She’d been preparing the room for her baby girl, but now the task felt tainted. Her mind kept drifting to the murder, a crime of passion, the wife who was killed in that very room. The house, once a dream home, had become a prison of dread.

She touched her growing belly, a wave of nausea washing over her. She knew she should be excited, happy. Instead, she was consumed by fear. She sat heavily on the floor, the world tilting and swirling around her.

She needed to leave. She needed to escape.

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