The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the driveway. It was empty. The sudden hollowness in the space was shocking, a stark contrast to the vibrant colors of the blooming flowers lining the walkway. Her husband had a doctor's appointment. They needed to leave.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She knew the car was gone, but her mind struggled to fully process the information. It was as if her world had become slightly unhinged. She began pacing, her steps quick and agitated, a stark contrast to her usually calm demeanor.

She ran her hand over her face, feeling the clammy skin. She reached for her phone, but her fingers fumbled over the screen. Each action felt clumsy and disconnected, a mirror of her inner turmoil.

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