shaken - Story 131749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just been about to water the petunias, when all hell broke loose. The noise still rung in his ears. He squinted at the scene, the aftermath a jumbled mess of splintered wood and torn leaves.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He took a step back, then another. He rubbed his arms, suddenly aware of the chill in the air.

He hadn't been able to stop the tree from falling. And now, he felt helpless. The world around him seemed to have shrunk, its edges blurring. He closed his eyes, for a moment, and took a shuddering breath.

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