The weight of the groceries felt heavy in Sarah’s hands as she walked down the street. She stopped short, her breath catching. The person in front of her was him, leaning against the wall, a sketchbook in his hand. Her online art partner, Ben.

She felt a wave of disorientation, a sense that the ground was no longer solid beneath her feet. She stared, unmoving, as the blood drained from her face.

The world seemed to sharpen and distort at the same time. The mundane reality of her life was suddenly warped. She dropped her groceries, and they scattered across the pavement.

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:
S0.351
unable0.269
focus0.266
😞0.258
다시0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.769
la-0.579
a-0.375
happy-0.292
"-0.290