The drive home was a blur. He replayed the teacher's name over and over in his head: Mr. Bellwether. *Bellwether*. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face tensing. He remembered the humiliation, the constant criticism. He felt his hands begin to tremble on the steering wheel.

He pulled into the driveway, killed the engine, and just sat there, staring blankly ahead. He found himself unable to move, trapped by the ghost of the past. The air inside the car felt thick, heavy with memories.

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