“What in the…" Detective Miller muttered, running a hand through his hair. The hidden room stank of old cigarettes and something else, something that made his stomach churn. The room itself was small, containing only a metal desk and a single, locked filing cabinet. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. A chill snaked up his spine, even though the air was thick and stagnant. He took a step back, his hand instinctively moving to his holster.

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