shaken - Story 131927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him, making it hard to breathe. Michael found himself staring at the sterile tiles of the bathroom floor, the doctor's words replaying in his mind. The feeling of being off balance seemed to amplify with every passing second.

He leaned against the sink, his reflection staring back at him, eyes wide and unseeing. He flinched at a sudden noise, the sound of a key in the lock.

His wife, Sarah, walked in, her face etched with a similar… something. She looked at him, her lips trembling slightly. She reached out and touched his hand, her touch surprisingly steady. "I got the call," she whispered.

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