He knew he shouldn't have gone in. But the curiosity, the morbid fascination, had been too strong. His pulse hammered against his temples as he surveyed the contents of the hidden room: an assortment of rusty tools and a single, leather-bound book. He swallowed hard, his throat dry. He suddenly felt a need to be surrounded by people, to talk, to hear a friendly voice. He backed slowly out, his gaze fixed on the space.

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