The card was tucked between a utility bill and a magazine subscription. Lisa's hands were unsteady as she took it out. The writing was neat, elegant, but completely unfamiliar. “Wishing you all the best on your special day.” Her stomach lurched.

She sat heavily at the kitchen table, the card a weight in her hand. A cold dread seeped into her bones. She couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. Her eyes darted toward the window.

She had to know. The need to find out who sent it became an all-consuming force. She pulled out her phone and started searching through her contacts, one by one.

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