The script, *his* script, was being advertised online. The website showed the play's announcement, but a different name appeared in the author's slot. His heart thudded hard, each beat a painful reminder of his reality.

He leaned back in his chair, the sudden movement causing his head to spin. He felt a deep ache in his bones, as though all the energy had been drained from his body.

The room around him seemed to warp and shift. The world outside, the world where he had planned to share his work, suddenly became a blur. He felt a wave of despair wash over him, leaving him feeling hollow.

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