The closing of "The Grumbling Goose" felt like a personal betrayal. I felt a clench in my gut as I read the post. I hadn't been there in a while, but it held a special place in my heart. A place where I felt safe, happy.

I wandered aimlessly through the apartment, not sure what to do. The silence was deafening, amplified by the sudden shift in my world. I picked up a book, but the words swam before my eyes. My hands felt clumsy.

I closed the book, dropping it on the table. The weight of the impending loss pressed down on me. I wanted to scream.

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