I froze, my hand still on the latch. The door, now ajar, revealed a long, dark corridor. The temperature plummeted. I felt a tremor run through me from the toes up. I’d been so excited about moving into this old Victorian house, imagining cozy evenings by the fireplace. Now, a deep, unsettling unease had settled in my gut, a heavy weight that refused to be dismissed. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and squeezed them shut again.

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
šŸ˜ž0.258
ė‹¤ģ‹œ0.257
Suppressed:
de-0.769
la-0.579
a-0.375
happy-0.292
"-0.290