The air grew thin as Amelia stared into the darkness of the passage. Her vision swam. Her hands, balled into fists, were pressed against her stomach. This wasn't supposed to happen. She was supposed to be living the dream, starting her life in a charming cottage in the countryside. Now, she felt a profound sense of wrongness, like a discordant note in a beautiful melody. She took another step back, instinctively seeking the safety of the sunlit hallway.

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