The world swam. The email scrolled on the screen, the words blurring like a fever dream. Sarah leaned back in her chair, the cheap plastic creaking in protest. Her breath hitched. The implication was clear, unforgiving.

Her vision tunneled. She felt a wave of nausea, the room spinning. She pressed her palms against her temples, trying to steady herself. This couldn't be happening. Not to her.

She had to clear her head, needed to find a way to make it disappear.

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