shaken - Story 131769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her legs felt like jelly, unable to support her. The maple, its leaves a fiery spectacle of autumn, now only existed in a faded photograph. She blinked repeatedly, trying to clear the mist from her vision. The sun was suddenly too bright, the air too thin.

She reached out and grasped the rough bark of a nearby oak. Her fingers tightened around the trunk, needing the physical contact, the grounding presence. The need to scream was almost unbearable.

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