shaken - Story 131747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, usually a boisterous creature, cowered at her feet, whining softly. She looked at the fallen redwood, its enormous trunk now bisecting Mrs. Gable's garden. Her stomach did a flip, a sudden, uncomfortable movement.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the cold metal of the fence for support. The world seemed to spin, very slowly.

She looked at her dog again, his fear mirroring her own. She bent down, gently stroking his fur. She needed something to ground her, something to remind her that everything was alright.

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