shaken - Story 131503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup wobbled precariously in Sarah’s grasp. She hadn't slept well since the incident. This time, the dog had gotten into the garden and dug up her prize-winning rose bush. Tears pricked at her eyes, blurring the already blurry landscape of her front yard.

She caught her breath, trying to steady herself. The rose bush. Years of work, gone in minutes. Now it was just a pile of dirt and broken stems.

Her hands were clammy as she reached for the phone, the cold plastic a stark contrast to her internal fever. This felt different. More invasive. She needed to tell someone.

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