shaken - Story 131945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was a heavy blanket, suffocating her. Chloe couldn't breathe. She re-read the final chapter, her heart pounding against her ribs. In the story, the character was supposed to leave the protagonist. This was all she could focus on.

She dropped the book onto the floor, the sound echoing in the stillness. A chill ran through her, making her skin crawl. The door creaked open, and there he was, standing in the doorway. She fought to keep her face neutral.

"Everything alright, love?" he asked, his voice gentle.

She forced a smile. "Fine."

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