shaken - Story 131767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green space that once held the apple tree was now a flat expanse. A wave of nausea rolled over her, forcing her to lean against the cold metal of the gate. She felt an impulse to run, to escape the devastation. She took a moment to compose herself, her breath coming in ragged gasps.

The silence was almost as jarring as the emptiness. She forced herself to walk forward, towards where the trunk had stood. She touched the smooth, cut edge of the stump, and immediately withdrew her hand.

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