The boxes sat in the middle of the kitchen table, a silent testament to years gone by. Maria felt a coldness creep up her spine as she opened one, the scent of aged paper filling her nostrils. Her past, laid bare. She felt the blood drain from her face.

She took a step back, her hand flying to her mouth. She couldn't believe this.

She felt like she was teetering on the edge of something, something she couldn't quite name. She felt a desire to escape.

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